Bangladeshi newspaper praises PASHA, bashes BASIS

BASIS, for those of you who don’t know (a group that included me until 5 minutes ago), is the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services. It’s an industry group and the Bangladeshi equivalent of our very own PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) or India’s NASSCOM.

Anyway, a Bangladeshi newspaper, the New Nation, came out with a review of the BASIS website, which apparently sucks. However, the article does praise PASHA’s website to the following tune, “They have huge [sic] resources to read which need many months to finish. Videos and PODCAST [sic] will extend your knowledge on Pakistan’s software industry.” In the spirit of brotherhood, I wonder if PASHA and/or PSEB can extend BASIS with some help on their website. Keep reading for the Bangladeshi news article…

http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/05/16/news0914.htm

So now we can turn to the website of Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES, P@SHA, (www.pasha.org.pk), to know where the competence of BASIS lies. They have huge resources to read which need many months to finish. Videos and PODCAST will extend your knowledge on Pakistan’s software industry. Even our BASIS is not interested to introduce simple blogs at their website. Blog is a must for a professional website to know views and opinions of surfers. To judge the surfers opinion there is an option for poll at P@SHA’s website. You can comment on the quality of the website by clicking on ‘excellent’, ‘very good’, ‘fair’ and ‘average’. E-newsletter posted at the site by a wonderful programming skill with manoeuvring huge information. The website designers of BASIS should visit the site to learn how to make a standard website.

Another website is Pakistan Software Export Board, PSEB, (www.pseb.org.pk), whose parent is government of the country. Like us they have many bureaucratic bottlenecks, but they built a western flavoured website. Mistakenly you can think you are browsing a professional and hyperactive website of USA. The home page of the website started by the quotations of international software icons like Arthur I. Anderson, Attorney, Fish & Richardson P.C., USA CEO and Mayor Bill White, Houston, Texas, USA. They lauded the quality and services of Pakistan’s software industry. Many research and technical papers are available at the website for serving the advance learners of the software industry.

With a merit the website is presenting their software industry’s total overview, even the website talks on Visa and logistic supports for foreign investors. Website of BASIS is not artistic and rich with essential contents compare to three mentioned websites of the software think-tanks of our neighbouring countries. Its option named ‘Resource Centre’ preserves a simple write-up.