Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) arranged the roundtable on Wednesday at BASIS conference hall on the draft Digital Commerce Act. Meanwhile the online Entrepreneurs expressed their grave concern over recent initiative of Ministry of Commerce to introduce a new 'Digital Commerce Act 2023'. Already a draft has been published on the law.

Fahim Mashroor, CEO of Bdjobs.com and AjkerDeal.com gave a keynote presentation. Entrepreneurs of different e-commerce, marketplaces, logistics and payments companies attended that includes senior officials Syed Mohammad Kamal from Mastercard, Shahab Uddin, Vice-President of e-Cab,Arnob Mustafa, Director of e-Cab,Shadman Sakib Rifat from Desktop IT,Arif Khan from Foodpanda, Fahim Shahriar Andalib from Daraz, Bidhan Chandra Pal from Probha Aurora.

Speakers mentioned that the fraud incidents in 2021 happened mainly because of not applying the existing laws, it did not happen because of lack of laws. The roundtable was presided by Zia Ashraf, Chairman of BASIS Digital Commerce Standing Committee.