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A new briefing paper on Environmental Sustainability - a Business Imperative published on the BASDA website

BASDA launches the BASDA Green XML Standard at the 1st Global Business of Biodiversity Symposium

Special Offers from @UK and CIM

BASDA Conference and AGM

BASDA’s governing General Council strengthened by election of five new members following AGM

BASDA members are invited to assist in the drafting a Security Best Practice Statement

BASDA congratulates member companies Access Accounting, Causeway, Microsoft and Version 1, winners at the Green IT Awards

BASDA is partnering with this year’s Software Satisfaction Awards

Announcement of appointment of new marketing manager for BASDA

2nd Cloud Computing World Forum29th and 30th June 2010Olympia, London

BASDA to develop a scheme of application software accreditation to give assurance to users that their business applications have been designed to help them comply with the UK Data Protection Act.

The BASDA Cloud SIG announced a new white paper, "Developing on the Cloud", at the Business Cloud Summit event on 2 December 2009.

BASDA, the trade association representing the UK software industry, has filed an objection to a Patent on a "Communication routing apparatus" granted by the European Patent Office (EPO). The Patent covers a process which is common to the providers of data exchange and integration services and, if not effectively challenged, this Patent could prevent the open use of this approach or involve a licence charge for the use of such a process. Enforcing the Patent could add to the cost of using B2B services, we

The 2009 Theo van Dort Award is presented to the person who has done the most to foster collaboration within the industry and goes to John Crooks for his active involvement with BASDA since 1996 and particularly for his efforts in promoting software best practice and co-operation across the business community.

BASDA Members were among the winners at the Software Satisfaction Awards announced on 8 October 2009

Access UK win the Green Software Provider of the year award, sponsored by BASDA, at the Sift Software Satisfaction Awards 2009.

As part of BASDA’s commitment to sustainability through the Green Charter, we have arranged special rates for BASDA members to attend the ICAEW IT Faculty Business Sustainability and Green IT event on 28th October at the Chartered Accountants’ Hall in London. The event is designed to provide practical advice and guidance from specialist speakers.

BASDA and the Cloud special interest group are supporting the Business Cloud Summit 2009 organised by Sift Media

Congratulations to all the BASDA members who have been shortlisted for the awards to be announced on 8 October 2009

BASDA responds to Migration Advisory Committee consultation proposals from the Home secretary to apply new controls in respect of requests for visas for "Tier Two" applicants (non-EU nationals in the context of an intra-corporate transfer (ICT)) into the UK. Any move to restrict ICT Tier 2 permits to only those jobs on the shortage occupations list will have a negative impact on the UK economy and will be detrimental to the IT Industry’s ability to do business.