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==Strategies==

To reach its tasks it also employs what it terms a dynamic mic of strategies -- awarenessstrategies—awareness raising, capacity building, technical assistance and advice, research and development, knowledge sharing and partnership building.

==Countries covered==

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APDIP's current (June 2006) team comprises chief technical advisor and

[Programme co-ordinator [[Shahid AKHTAR]], FOSS consultant [[Sunil ABRAHAM]], programme specialist for content development and knowledge

ABRAHAM]], programme specialist for content development and knowledge

management [[Christine APIKUL]], programme specialist for policy

development and dialogue [[Lars BESTLE]], practice team

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In 2006, IOSN undertook plans for expansion of its activities with three more "centres of excellence". Till this time, it was largely a network with a small secretariat based at the UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok.

It is now to have three more centres -- IOSNcentres—IOSN ASEAN+3, IOSN PIC (Pacific Island Countries) and IOSN South Asia. These centres will be based at Manila (the Philippines), Suva (Fiji) and Chennai (India), respectively.

IOSN is more focussed on policy and technical advice on [[FOSS]] (also called [[FLOSS]], or Free/Libre and Open Source Software) to governments, civil society and the private sector. It produces reports which are put out under the [[Creative Commons]] license, and available for download from its [http://www.iosn.net website].