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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—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].