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Entry #57 OSINT World Series

1. Open Data Portals

• Papua New Guinea National Statistical Office — Primary source for censuses, demographic indicators, economic statistics, labour, trade, prices, and social data.

• NSO Statistics by Topic — Topic-level entry point for population, economy, business, labour, agriculture, and other national statistics.

• NSO Document Library — Downloadable census reports, surveys, statistical bulletins, and methodological publications.

• Papua New Guinea Environment Data Portal — Environmental datasets, documents, indicators, maps, and country reporting collected through SPREP.

• Pacific Data Hub — Papua New Guinea — PNG datasets aggregated across Pacific regional organisations.

• Humanitarian Data Exchange — Papua New Guinea — Humanitarian, administrative-boundary, population, infrastructure, aid, health, and conflict datasets.

• Bank of Papua New Guinea — Quarterly Economic Bulletin Statistics — Monetary, banking, government finance, balance-of-payments, trade, prices, and employment tables.

• World Bank Data — Papua New Guinea — Development indicators with downloadable time series and source metadata.

• World Bank Data360 — Papua New Guinea — Cross-sector country indicators, benchmarking, and downloadable data.

• IMF DataMapper — Papua New Guinea — Macroeconomic indicators, projections, inflation, fiscal, debt, and external-sector data.

• Department of Treasury — Annual Budgets — National budget volumes, speeches, appropriation material, taxation bills, and historical budgets.

2. Company Registries

• Investment Promotion Authority — PNG’s principal business-registration authority and entry point for companies, business names, associations, foreign enterprises, and registry services.

• IPA Business Entity Search — Search registered companies and other entities by name or registration details.

• IPA Business Entities Registry — Registry landing page for corporate searches, filings, forms, and entity-management services.

• PNG Personal Property Securities Registry — Search security interests registered against movable property and business assets. The IPA describes its entity and PPSR searches as publicly searchable and available online.

• Intellectual Property Office of Papua New Guinea — Trademark, patent, and industrial-design searches, filings, and IP information.

• PNGX Markets — Listed companies, market notices, prices, issuer information, and exchange publications.

• PNGX Company Announcements — Corporate disclosures, financial reports, management changes, transactions, and market announcements.

• Bank of Papua New Guinea — Licensed Entities — Official lists of regulated banks and other licensed financial institutions.

• FASU Registered Financial Institutions — Financial institutions registered for anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing supervision.

• Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce Business Directory — Local member-company and service-provider directory.

• Manufacturers Council of PNG — Members — Directory of manufacturing and industrial-sector members.

• GLEIF LEI Search — Global cross-check for PNG-related companies or financial entities that hold Legal Entity Identifiers.

• OCCRP Aleph — Searchable corporate, procurement, sanctions, leaks, court, and document datasets; full access may require registration.

• Open Sanctions - PNG - Contains 393 entities connected with Papua New Guinea. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

3. Land & Property Records

• DLPP Registrar of Titles — Title Search — Formal title-search process using a title reference, property description, or owner name. The process is not presented as a fully self-service public database. (Set VPN to PNG to access)

• DLPP eLands — Electronic land-administration services for state leases, payments, notices, and related property administration. (Set VPN to PNG to access)

• National Land Use Information Management System — Government land-use and spatial-information platform.

• DLPP Incorporated Land Groups — Information on recognised Incorporated Land Groups and customary land-group administration. (Set VPN to PNG to access)

• Steps to Incorporate an ILG — Procedural guidance and documentary requirements for ILG recognition. (Set VPN to PNG to access)

• Department of Lands and Physical Planning — General access to land administration, physical planning, titles, valuation, and ILG services. (Set VPN to PNG to access)

• Hausples Property Listings — Commercial sale and rental listings useful for address, neighbourhood, price, developer, and visual research. It is not evidence of legal ownership.

• Hausples Properties for Sale — Filtered commercial listing search by location and property type.

For ownership verification, prioritise a formal DLPP title search and related Gazette notices over real-estate advertisements or map labels.

4. Conflict Resources

Papua New Guinea is not currently in a nationwide armed conflict. However, conflict-monitoring resources remain relevant because of the historical Bougainville conflict and ongoing localized tribal, communal, political, and election-related violence, particularly in the Highlands.

• ACLED — Papua New Guinea — Country dashboard for reported political violence, demonstrations, actors, locations, and event trends.

• ACLED PNG Conflict Events on HDX — Downloadable conflict-event data for analysis and mapping.

• ReliefWeb — Papua New Guinea — UN, government, NGO, humanitarian, displacement, security, and disaster reporting.

• UCDP — Bougainville Conflict — Structured historical conflict record, parties, dates, and fatalities for the Bougainville conflict.

• PA-X — Bougainville Peace Agreement — Full agreement record and coded provisions from the Peace Agreements Database.

• UN Peacebuilding Fund — PNG Country Brief — Peacebuilding priorities, Highlands programming, Bougainville context, and UN interventions.

• UNDP — Securing Conditions for Sustained Peace in the Highlands — Programme information on conflict prevention, mediation, community recovery, and local peace structures.

• UNDP Transparency Portal — Highlands Peace Project — Project outputs, indicators, expenditure, results, and implementation records.

5. Geospatial Data and Maps

PNG-specific platforms

• PNG Biodiversity and Climate Geoportal — Open-access environmental maps and datasets covering administration, biodiversity, climate, coastal areas, freshwater, land, minerals, soil, protected areas, risk, and socio-economic themes. Public layers can be viewed, downloaded, or streamed into GIS software.

• PNG Environment Data Portal — Environmental datasets, reports, maps, and metadata.

• National Land Use Information Management System — Government land-use and planning information.

• HDX — PNG Administrative Boundaries — Common Operational Dataset boundary files for provinces, districts, and lower administrative levels.

• HDX — Papua New Guinea Roads — Downloadable road-network data for mapping and logistics analysis.

• Geofabrik — OpenStreetMap PNG Downloads — Frequently updated PNG extracts in PBF, shapefile, and GeoPackage formats.

• Global Forest Watch — Papua New Guinea — Forest cover, change, fires, land use, and alert layers with downloadable statistics.

• Protected Planet — Papua New Guinea — Protected-area boundaries, designations, governance information, and downloadable WDPA data.

• Pacific Islands Protected Area Portal — PNG — Country-level protected-area maps, biodiversity information, plans, and linked datasets.

Satellite and imagery platforms

• Copernicus Browser — Sentinel imagery, time-series comparison, band combinations, and downloads.

• NASA Worldview — Near-real-time satellite layers for fires, smoke, storms, vegetation, oceans, and atmospheric conditions.

• USGS EarthExplorer — Landsat, elevation, aerial, radar, and other remote-sensing datasets.

• Google Earth Web — Historical and current imagery, terrain, 3D inspection, coordinates, and place comparison.

6. Flight & Vessel Tracking

Aviation

• CASA PNG Aircraft Registers — Official civil-aircraft register publications, useful for connecting a P2-registration to an aircraft type and registered operator.

• Flightradar24 — Live and historical aircraft tracks, airport activity, registrations, callsigns, and scheduled-flight context.

• FlightAware — Flight status, schedules, airport movements, alerts, and historical tracking.

• ADS-B Exchange — Community-sourced ADS-B and Mode-S tracking, often useful for comparing coverage with commercial trackers.

Maritime

• National Maritime Safety Authority — PNG’s official maritime regulator and starting point for ship registration, safety, navigation notices, pollution response, and maritime search and rescue.

• MarineTraffic — AIS vessel positions, port calls, track history, ownership leads, and vessel characteristics.

• VesselFinder — AIS vessel and port tracking, including searches around PNG ports.

• Equasis — Free, registration-required ship and company search with safety, ownership, classification, inspection, and management information.

• IMO GISIS — IMO ship, company, casualty, port-facility, and maritime-security datasets; some modules require an account.

• Global Fishing Watch Map — Fishing activity, vessel presence, encounters, port visits, and marine-management layers.

Coverage caution: receiver density, satellite coverage, operator blocking, delayed data, incomplete AIS transmission, and data licensing can all create gaps. A missing track is not proof that an aircraft or vessel was absent.

7. People Search

• IPA Business Entity Search — Search people through companies, directorships, shareholders, officers, business names, or associated filings where available.

• PNGi Portal — Search and research portal containing official documents, historical Gazettes, company material, court documents, reports, and other source records.

• PNG Judiciary — Court notices, judgments, judicial information, cause-list material, and court-system resources.

• Judiciary Court Library Database — Entry point to PNG case-law and related legal databases, including links to PACLII resources.

• FamilySearch — PNG Vital Records, 1867–2000 — Searchable historical birth, marriage, and death records. Account or record-access restrictions may apply.

• FamilySearch Wiki — Papua New Guinea Genealogy — Research guidance, record types, archives, and historical jurisdictions.

• Office of Libraries and Archives — Government records, manuscripts, photographs, private papers, and national archival collections.

• LinkedIn People Search — Useful for employment, education, organisation, and professional-network leads.

• Facebook — Particularly important in PNG for local public pages, businesses, community announcements, and public-facing personal profiles.

• OCCRP Aleph — Searchable corporate, procurement, sanctions, leaks, court, and document datasets; full access may require registration.

• Open Sanctions - PNG - Contains 393 entities connected with Papua New Guinea. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• Useful Google searches (Dorking)

  Replace the quoted placeholders with the person’s real name, organisation, province, or role.

site:gov.pg “Full Name”

site:parliament.gov.pg “Full Name”

site:pngjudiciary.gov.pg “Full Name”

site:ipa.gov.pg “Full Name”

(site:postcourier.com.pg OR site:thenational.com.pg) “Full Name”

site:gov.pg filetype:pdf “Full Name”

“Full Name” (”Papua New Guinea” OR PNG) “Company or Province”

site:facebook.com “Full Name” (”Papua New Guinea” OR “Port Moresby”)

“Full Name” after:2024-01-01 before:2027-01-01

“Full Name” (”appointed” OR “director” OR “shareholder” OR “charged” OR “elected”)

8. Media Outlets

• Global Media List — Papua New Guinea — Directory of newspapers, broadcasters, radio stations, podcasts, and digital media.

• Papua New Guinea Newspapers Online — Aggregated directory organised by national newspapers, Tok Pisin media, broadcasters, business media, and regional reporting.

Governmental and public sources

• Department of Prime Minister and NEC — Official executive announcements, speeches, appointments, policy statements, and media releases.

• National Parliament of Papua New Guinea — Parliamentary news, committee activity, bills, debates, sitting information, and livestreams.

• NBC Papua New Guinea — National public broadcaster covering radio, television, and online news.

Mainstream national media

• The National — National daily news, politics, courts, business, provincial reporting, and sport.

• Post-Courier — National newspaper covering government, politics, society, business, courts, and provinces.

• EMTV — Television and digital news.

• Wantok Niuspepa — Tok Pisin reporting and national/community coverage.

• PNG Haus Bung — Digital national and provincial news.

• Business Advantage PNG — Business, investment, industry, infrastructure, and economic reporting.

Independent and investigative sources

• PNGi Central — Investigative reporting on political-economic networks, corruption, land, forestry, procurement, court cases, and public institutions. Its reports commonly link back to documentary evidence.

• PNG Attitude — Commentary, history, public affairs, and Australia–PNG analysis.

• Devpolicy Blog — Papua New Guinea — Research-led analysis of PNG economics, governance, health, development, elections, and public policy.

Opposition and parliamentary criticism

• Parliamentary Hansards — Verbatim or near-verbatim records of debates, ministerial statements, questions, and opposition interventions.

• Questions for Written Answers — Questions submitted by members seeking formal government information.

Regional, diaspora, and external coverage

• ABC Pacific — Australian public-broadcaster coverage of PNG and the wider Pacific.

• RNZ Pacific — New Zealand-based Pacific reporting.

• Asia Pacific Report — Papua New Guinea — Regional journalism, media-freedom reporting, and Pacific affairs.

• The Guardian — Papua New Guinea — International reporting and investigations concerning PNG.

9. Disaster, Climate and Health

• Papua New Guinea National Disaster Centre — Official disaster alerts, response information, plans, preparedness material, and reporting channels.

• PNG National Weather Service — Forecasts, marine conditions, climate information, warnings, and tide-related information.

• ReliefWeb — Papua New Guinea — Situation reports, needs assessments, humanitarian response documents, maps, and agency updates.

• GDACS — Global alerts and impact estimates for earthquakes, cyclones, floods, volcanoes, and other major hazards.

• USGS Earthquake Map — Near-real-time earthquake epicentres, depth, magnitude, event products, and downloadable feeds.

• Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program — Rabaul — Eruption history, reports, references, maps, and observatory information for the Rabaul volcanic system.

• NASA FIRMS Fire Map — Satellite-detected active fires and thermal anomalies.

• Pacific Tsunami Warning Center — Regional tsunami bulletins and event information.

• WHO Data — Papua New Guinea — Health-system, mortality, population, expenditure, disease, and service-coverage indicators, with source and quality notes.

• WHO Papua New Guinea Country Page — Country-office publications, emergency information, health profiles, strategies, and news.

10. Other Toolkits and Resources

• Bellingcat Online Investigation Toolkit — Categorised tools for maps, imagery, people, companies, transport, archiving, verification, and social media.

• GIJN Resource Center — Investigative-journalism guides covering companies, corruption, procurement, climate, elections, conflict, and verification.

• OSINT Framework — Large categorised collection of open-source investigation tools.

• Verification Handbook — Practical guidance for verifying digital content, witnesses, images, video, locations, and claims.

11. Miscellaneous

• Transparency International PNG

• Wikileaks - PNG

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine — Recover removed or changed PNG government pages, company websites, news articles, and historical versions.

• Papua New Guinea National Research Institute — Policy research, discussion papers, governance studies, economic analysis, and development publications.

• Business Advantage PNG — Useful Contacts — Aggregated links and contact details for government departments, regulators, industry bodies, chambers, and diplomatic missions. Verify officeholders and numbers before relying on them.

• NPC Tenders — Tender records, reference numbers, categories, deadlines, status, and project details.

• Department of Petroleum — Licence and Tenement Map — Static map of petroleum applications, prospecting licences, retention licences, development licences, interests, and basin context. Because it is dated December 2021, verify licences against more recent departmental or EITI information.

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Entry #56 OSINT World Series

1. Open Data Portals

• Central Statistical Organization of Myanmar — Official national statistics, publications, indicators, surveys, and the National Strategy for Development of Statistics.

• Myanmar Statistical Information Service — MMSIS — Searchable official statistical database covering demographic, economic, social, trade, and administrative indicators.

• Department of Population — Data and Maps — Census tables, population estimates, thematic maps, township information, and demographic publications.

• 2024 Myanmar Population and Housing Census — Union Report — Official census publication and supporting demographic tables.

• Myanmar Information Management Unit — MIMU — One of the most important sources for humanitarian, development, administrative, demographic, infrastructure, and assessment data.

• MIMU Datasets on the Humanitarian Data Exchange — Downloadable datasets in spreadsheet and GIS-compatible formats.

• Open Development Myanmar — Data Hub — Open datasets concerning land, natural resources, infrastructure, economy, governance, and development.

• World Bank — Myanmar Data — Development indicators, economic series, population statistics, and downloadable country data.

• Myanmar National Trade Portal — Trade Data and Charts — Official import, export, tariff, commodity, and trading-partner information.

• UN Comtrade — Bilateral merchandise-trade records searchable by Myanmar, partner country, commodity code, year, and trade flow.

• FAOSTAT — Agricultural production, land use, food security, forestry, livestock, and commodity data.

• ILOSTAT — Myanmar Country Profile — Employment, labour-force, wage, occupation, and working-condition indicators.

• Online Burma/Myanmar Library — Large searchable collection of full-text documents, laws, reports, periodicals, historical records, and archived publications.

• National Library of Myanmar — National publications, bibliographic resources, manuscripts, reference services, and research enquiries.

2. Company Registries

• MyCO Company Search — Official company-registry search for entity names, registration numbers, status, addresses, officers, and available filings.

• Directorate of Investment and Company Administration — DICA — Official authority for company administration, corporate registration, investment rules, notifications, and forms.

• Myanmar Investment Directory — Directory of investment opportunities, projects, sectors, and businesses.

• OpenCorporates — Myanmar Companies — Aggregated company records useful for name normalization and cross-border corporate research. Verify findings against MyCO.

• Yangon Stock Exchange — Listed-company announcements, annual reports, financial statements, share information, and pre-listing-board disclosures.

• Securities and Exchange Commission of Myanmar — Capital-market rules, public-company supervision, securities companies, annual reports, and regulatory announcements.

• MyanTrade Exporter Directory — Searchable directory of Myanmar exporters and their products.

• Myanmar National Trade Portal — Authorized Traders — Official lists of businesses authorized for specified trade activities.

• Central Bank of Myanmar — Lists and notices relating to banks, finance companies, non-bank financial institutions, payment providers, and mobile financial services.

• Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry — UMFCCI — Chamber information, affiliated trade associations, events, and business-network leads.

• Myanmar Yellow Pages — Commercial business directory searchable by company name, category, product, and location.

• List of companies of Myanmar — Wikipedia

• Company List Myanmar - JOIM

• American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar

• List of Companies in Myanmar - Powrbot

• OpenSanctions - Myanmar

3. Land & Property Records

Note: As of writing of this post, there’s no nationwide public website that allows unrestricted searches of legal land ownership by parcel or owner in Myanmar. The official starting point is the Settlement and Land Records Department, with GIS platforms and local administrative records used as supporting sources. Commercial property listings are leads, not evidence of legal title.

• Settlement and Land Records Department — SLRD — Official department responsible for land records, cadastral maps, land statistics, surveying, and deed-registration functions.

• OneMap Myanmar — The initiative to integrate spatial information concerning land, agriculture, forestry, concessions, and planning. Project Info

• Myanmar LAMP Map Viewer — Interactive land, agriculture, environmental, and land-management mapping platform.

• Myanmar National Land Cover Portal — Land-cover maps and supporting datasets for land-use and environmental analysis.

• MIMU GIS Resources — Administrative boundaries, place codes, settlement data, base layers, GIS guidance, and mapping resources.

• Online Burma/Myanmar Library — Land Portal — Laws, policies, academic research, reports, and historical documents concerning land ownership and land disputes.

• iMyanmarHouse — Residential and commercial property listings useful for identifying brokers, developers, projects, and approximate market values.

• ShweProperty — Property listings and developer information; use only as a commercial lead source.

4. Conflict Resources

• ACLED — Myanmar — Conflict-event data, trend analysis, dashboards, and reporting on political violence and demonstrations.

• ACLED Myanmar Dataset on HDX — Downloadable conflict-event data for mapping and quantitative analysis.

• IISS Myanmar Conflict Map — Interactive map and dashboard covering armed actors, territorial developments, conflict incidents, and displacement.

• Myanmar Witness — Verified open-source investigations into alleged human-rights violations, airstrikes, fires, attacks, and digital evidence.

• Myanmar Witness — Map of Published Reports — Geographic index of Myanmar Witness investigations.

• Myanmar Peace Monitor — Conflict monitoring, peace-process analysis, actor profiles, timelines, and regional reporting.

• Uppsala Conflict Data Program — Myanmar — Academic conflict data on actors, organized violence, fatalities, and conflict history.

• UCDP Download Center — Downloadable georeferenced events, conflict dyads, actors, and fatality datasets.

• Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar — Analytical Reports — UN reports and evidence-related analysis concerning serious international crimes.

• UN OCHA — Myanmar — Humanitarian situation updates, displacement information, response plans, and access reporting.

• ReliefWeb — Myanmar — Aggregated UN, NGO, government, and humanitarian reports filterable by date, organization, disaster, and document type.

• AAPP Myanmar Data Explorer — Documented arrests, detentions, deaths, and related incidents maintained by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. Treat individual-level records sensitively.

• UNHCR — Myanmar Situation — Data and reports on internally displaced people, refugees, asylum seekers, and regional displacement.

• IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix — Myanmar Products — Displacement, mobility, needs-assessment, and population-movement products.

• OFAC Burma-Related Sanctions — Official US legal authorities, sanctions notices, and Burma-related program information.

• OFAC Sanctions List Search — Fuzzy-name searching across US SDN and non-SDN sanctions lists, including entities, people, vessels, and aircraft.

• UK Sanctions List Search — Search individuals, entities, addresses, identifiers, and specified ships subject to UK sanctions.

• EU Sanctions Tracker — Myanmar/Burma — Searchable EU designations associated with the Myanmar/Burma sanctions regime.

5. Geospatial Data and Maps

• MIMU Mapping and Spatial Data Catalogue — Central catalogue for Myanmar administrative maps, settlements, roads, facilities, hazards, and humanitarian layers.

• MIMU GeoNode — Interactive maps and downloadable geospatial layers.

• Myanmar Administrative Boundaries — HDX COD-AB — Humanitarian Common Operational Dataset for administrative boundaries and place codes.

• Administrative Geography of Myanmar

• OpenStreetMap Export — Roads, settlements, buildings, waterways, amenities, and community-mapped infrastructure.

• Geofabrik — Myanmar OpenStreetMap Extracts — Downloadable .pbf, shapefile, and related OSM extracts for Myanmar.

• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Export Tool — Create custom downloadable OSM extracts by area and feature type.

• Copernicus Browser — Sentinel satellite imagery, date comparison, spectral visualization, and imagery downloads.

• NASA FIRMS Fire Map — Near-real-time thermal anomalies and fire detections useful for wildfire, village-fire, and conflict-event corroboration.

• geoBoundaries — Open administrative-boundary datasets with multiple licensing and precision options.

• GADM — Downloadable administrative boundaries for Myanmar and other countries.

• Open Development Myanmar — Administrative Boundaries — Myanmar-specific boundary files and accompanying metadata.

6. Flight & Vessel Tracking

Note: Tracks may be delayed, filtered, incomplete, or absent when transponders are disabled or coverage is poor. Absence from an ADS-B or AIS platform is not proof that an aircraft or vessel was absent.

• Flightradar24 — Myanmar Airports — Airport arrivals, departures, routes, aircraft details, and available flight history.

• ADS-B Exchange — Global aircraft-position map with filtering by callsign, registration, altitude, aircraft type, and history where available.

• FlightAware — Commercial, cargo, scheduled, and general-aviation tracking and airport information.

• OpenSky Network — Research-oriented ADS-B data, aircraft states, flight information, and historical-data access.

• Plane Finder — Live aircraft map, registration and callsign searches, route information, and available playback.

• MarineTraffic — AIS vessel positions, port calls, voyage information, ownership leads, and vessel particulars.

• VesselFinder — Port of Yangon — Yangon arrivals, departures, expected vessels, and port-call information.

• Global Fishing Watch Map — Fishing activity, vessel presence, encounters, loitering, and maritime-behaviour analysis.

• Myanma Port Authority — Official port notices, statistics, procedures, terminals, and maritime announcements.

• Myanma Port Authority — Container Vessel Schedules — Published container-vessel schedules and port-arrival information.

• Department of Marine Administration — Official maritime regulations, notices, registration information, and seafarer resources.

• DMA Myanmar Online Services — Online maritime and seafarer-related verification services.

7. People Search

• X Advanced Search — Public-post search by account, phrase, language, date range, and engagement.

• MyCO Company Search — Useful for connecting individuals to registered companies, director positions, and corporate addresses.

• Telegago — Search aid for publicly indexed Telegram channels and posts.

• Sherlock — Username-presence checks across hundreds of websites; manually verify every match.

• FamilySearch — Myanmar — Historical records, family trees, genealogy resources, and catalogue material.

• MyanmarGenWeb — Community-maintained genealogy and historical-research links for Myanmar.

• MyHeritage — Myanmar Records — Genealogy, historical records, and family-tree searches; account or payment may be required for some records.

• Myanmar Medical Council — Professional and regulatory information useful when verifying medical affiliations or credentials.

• Myanmar Yellow Pages — Search for publicly listed business contacts, proprietors, professionals, and organizations.

• Public-page Google searches: Replace the placeholders with the person’s Latin-script name, Burmese-script name, known aliases, employer, or location.

site:gov.mm "Full Name" filetype:pdf

site:myco.dica.gov.mm "Full Name"

site:linkedin.com/in ("Full Name" OR "Name Variant") ("Myanmar" OR "Burma")

site:facebook.com ("Full Name" OR "Burmese-script name") ("Yangon" OR "Mandalay")

site:t.me ("Full Name" OR "Burmese-script name")

site:org.mm "Full Name"

"Full Name" ("director" OR "owner" OR "founder") ("Myanmar" OR "Burma")

("Full Name" OR "Burmese-script name") filetype:pdf

Also try alternative spellings, abbreviated names, honorifics, former organization names, and searches without spaces between transliterated name components.

8. Media Outlets

Governmental and state-run

• Myanma Radio and Television — MRTV — State television and radio, official announcements, schedules, live streams, and government reporting.

• Myanmar Digital News — State-operated digital news in English and Burmese.

• Global New Light of Myanmar — English-language state newspaper and archive of official statements and daily reporting.

• Myanmar International TV — English-language television and digital coverage connected to the state broadcasting system.

Domestic mainstream and commercial

• Eleven Media Group — Domestic news, business, sport, opinion, and local reporting in English and Burmese.

• Popular News Journal — Burmese-language domestic news, entertainment, business, and local reporting.

• Voice of Myanmar — Burmese-language local news, interviews, photographs, and regional reporting.

Opposition and resistance-affiliated

• National Unity Government — News — Official NUG statements, policy positions, announcements, and diplomatic reporting.

• Public Voice Television — PVTV — Resistance-aligned video news and programming.

• Radio NUG — NUG-affiliated radio and current-affairs programming.

• Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw — CRPH — Statements, parliamentary material, and opposition-government information.

Independent, exile, or international media

• Myanmar Now — Independent investigative and current-affairs reporting in English and Burmese.

• The Irrawaddy — Myanmar politics, conflict, ethnic affairs, economy, and regional analysis.

• Frontier Myanmar — Long-form reporting and analysis on politics, business, conflict, and development.

• Democratic Voice of Burma — DVB — Independent daily news, video, documentaries, interviews, and exile-media reporting.

• Mizzima — Independent news organization with English and Burmese reporting.

• BBC News Burmese — International public-service reporting in Burmese across digital, audio, and video formats.

• Radio Free Asia — Burmese — Burmese-language reporting on politics, conflict, human rights, and regional developments.

Ethnic and regional media

• Burma News International — Network aggregating reporting from independent ethnic and regional media organizations.

• Shan Herald Agency for News — Reporting focused on Shan State, ethnic politics, armed conflict, and border developments.

• Karen News — Reporting on Karen communities, southeastern Myanmar, displacement, conflict, and human rights.

• Narinjara News — Rakhine-focused reporting on conflict, politics, displacement, Bangladesh–Myanmar relations, and local affairs.

Investigative Media

• Myanmar Now — Independent investigative and current-affairs reporting in English and Burmese.

• The Irrawaddy — Myanmar politics, conflict, ethnic affairs, economy, and regional analysis.

• Frontier Myanmar — Long-form reporting and analysis on politics, business, conflict, and development.

• Justice For Myanmar (JFM) — Focused specifically on corporate and financial links to the military; produces detailed investigative reports rather than daily news; arguably more advocacy-research than journalism but frequently cited by international media.

• Fortify Rights — Sits between investigative research and human rights documentation; not a news outlet but produces primary investigative material.

• Myanmar Witness — open-source investigation and verification of conflict events; part of the Centre for Information Resilience.

9. Other Toolkits and Resources

• GIJN Online Research Tools — Collection of research, verification, people-search, website-analysis, and investigative tools.

• OSINT in Myanmar — Community GitHub Guide

• Worldwide OSINT Tools Map

10. Miscellaneous

• Myanmar’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)

• Wikileaks - Myanmar

• Myanmar Law Information System — Constitutions, Union laws, regional and state laws, subordinate legislation, treaties, legal translations, and historical legal periods.

• OONI Explorer — Myanmar — Network measurements concerning website blocking, application interference, censorship, and internet outages.

• Rabbit Zawgyi–Unicode Converter — Converts older Zawgyi-encoded Burmese text to Unicode and back, useful for searching older documents and websites.

• UNECE UN/LOCODE Country Lists — Standardized codes for Myanmar ports, airports, border points, logistics locations, and administrative subdivisions.

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Entry #55 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• Jamaica Open Data — Official · Free. Central government catalog covering agriculture, economy, education, environment, finance, health, infrastructure, society, technology, and transport.

• Statistical Institute of Jamaica—STATIN — Official · Free. Jamaica’s principal source for population, labour, economic, trade, price, demographic, and social statistics.

• Jamaica 2022 Population and Housing Census — Census reports, parish-level statistics, population tables, housing data, and demographic publications.

• STATIN Search and Publications Archive — Search historical statistical releases, reports, tables, surveys, and publications.

• PIOJ JamStats — Development indicators maintained by the Planning Institute of Jamaica, covering national and sector-level outcomes.

• PIOJ Publications and Reports — Economic and Social Survey of Jamaica material, development reports, policy studies, and economic updates.

• Bank of Jamaica Statistics — Official · Free. Monetary, banking, inflation, exchange-rate, balance-of-payments, financial-sector, and payment-system data.

• BOJ Foreign-Exchange Rates and Volumes — Search and download historical foreign-exchange rates and market volumes.

• Ministry of Finance General Government Data — Fiscal balances, revenue, expenditure, debt, and general-government financial tables.

• Ministry of Finance Budget Resources — National budgets, estimates of expenditure, revenue measures, fiscal policy papers, and supporting documents.

• Jamaica Customs Trade Statistics — Customs-based import, export, commodity, and trading-partner statistics.

• STATIN International Merchandise Trade Statistics — Official merchandise-import and export data, including historical trade tables.

• World Bank Data - Jamaica

• Humanitarian Data Exchange - Jamaica

• Observatory of Economic Complexity—Jamaica — Visualized Jamaican exports, imports, products, trading partners, and economic-complexity data.

• World Bank WITS—Jamaica — Trade, tariff, market-access, product, and partner-country statistics.

• WTO Jamaica Trade Profile — Tariffs, services, merchandise trade, trade-policy indicators, and WTO-related country information.

Company Registries

• Companies Office of Jamaica Company Search — Official · Basic search free; documents may be paid. Search companies and business names. Advanced searches can identify records linked to directors, proprietors, shareholders, or company secretaries.

• Companies Office of Jamaica — Company incorporation, annual returns, business-name registration, forms, fees, document requests, and corporate-services information.

• National Security Interests in Personal Property Registry — Official · Public search. Search registered security interests over movable property, useful for investigating loans, collateral, and secured creditors.

• Jamaica Stock Exchange Listed Companies — List of publicly traded companies with symbols, profiles, sectors, and related market information.

• JSE Audited Financial Statements — Audited annual financial statements and disclosures submitted by listed companies.

• JSE Quarterly Financial Statements — Quarterly company accounts and interim financial disclosures.

• Financial Services Commission Regulated Entities and Individuals — Search or browse licensed securities, insurance, pension, investment, and related financial-sector entities and professionals.

• Bank of Jamaica Deposit-Taking Institutions — Official information on licensed commercial banks, merchant banks, building societies, and other supervised institutions.

• Licensed Microcredit Institutions — Bank of Jamaica’s list of institutions licensed under Jamaica’s microcredit regime.

• Bank of Jamaica List of Cambios — Official list of authorized foreign-exchange cambios.

• Department of Co-operatives and Friendly Societies — Regulator and registration authority for co-operatives, friendly societies, and charities.

• Jamaica Special Economic Zone Registry — Official list of approved SEZ developers, occupants, and other special-economic-zone entities.

• Cannabis Licensing Authority— Official list of approved cannabis cultivators, processors, retailers, transporters, and research licensees.

• Jamaica Intellectual Property Office Search — Search Jamaican trademarks, patents, industrial designs, owners, applicants, and related intellectual-property records. (Use VPN to access)

• OpenCorporates—Jamaica Register Information — Third-party. International company database with Jamaican records sourced from the Companies Office; verify important findings against the official register.

• Workandjam - Jamaica Business Directory

Land & Property Records

Jamaica’s principal online land system is eLand Jamaica. Basic mapping and title-reference information can be free, while certificates of title, plans, caveats, instruments, and other documents generally require payment.

• eLand Jamaica — Official · Mixed free/paid access. Search and purchase certificates of title, deposited plans, strata plans, caveats, enclosure plans, and registered instruments.

• eLand Jamaica Interactive Map — Search spatially by location, road, parcel, valuation number, or title reference.

• NLA Valuation Roll Report — Property-valuation information that may include title references, ownership or possession information, land use, and assessed value.

• National Land Agency General Searches — Guidance on land-title, instrument, caveat, plan, and related official searches, including applicable fees.

• NLA Document Search — Request official or certified land documents; some services require a deposit account or payment.

• JAMPROP Property Sales Database — Official · Subscription/paid. Search recorded Jamaican property-sale transactions and market-comparison information.

• Property Tax Query — Official property-tax account and valuation-number query service.

• NEPA Environmental Impact Assessments — Environmental-impact studies and supporting records for major development proposals.

• Jamaica Geodetic Control Point Search — Search survey-control monuments and coordinates used for cadastral and engineering work.

• NLA Document Tracking — Track the processing status of documents submitted to the National Land Agency.

• Digital Submission of Survey Plans — Online survey-plan submission portal; primarily designed for authorized survey professionals.

• Real Estate Board Public Register — Verify registered real-estate dealers, salespeople, and developers. It does not establish ownership of a particular property.

Conflict Resources

For Jamaica, this category is most useful for researching gang violence, organized crime, homicide, public-order operations, police conduct, states of emergency, and human-rights concerns rather than conventional battlefield conflict.

• Jamaica Constabulary Force Crime Statistics — Current serious-crime reports and comparisons, including murder, shooting, robbery, rape, and break-in figures. The JCF warns that figures can change as investigations continue.

• JCF Wanted Persons — Official police notices concerning people wanted in connection with crimes.

• JCF Missing Persons — Official missing-person notices and identifying information released by police.

• INDECOM Reports — Reports from the Independent Commission of Investigations on police shootings, deaths in custody, security-force conduct, and investigations.

• Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency — Official information on organized-crime, corruption, financial-crime, trafficking, and major criminal investigations.

• ACLED Jamaica — Political-violence, protest, riot, gang-violence, and public-order event data and analysis. Download access may require registration.

• UNODC Data Portal — Internationally comparable homicide, criminal-justice, firearms, trafficking, prison, and organized-crime indicators.

• InSight Crime—Jamaica — Reporting and analysis on Jamaican gangs, trafficking routes, homicide trends, states of emergency, and organized crime.

• Global Organized Crime Index—Jamaica — Comparative assessment of criminal markets, criminal actors, resilience, governance, and law-enforcement capacity.

• Jamaicans for Justice — Local civil-society organization covering policing, detention, children’s rights, justice reform, and state accountability.

• Jamaicans for Justice Document Library — Reports, submissions, legal analysis, policy documents, and human-rights research.

• OHCHR Jamaica Country Page — UN human-rights documents, treaty-body findings, recommendations, and country-related material.

• CAPRI Report on Zones of Special Operations — Local policy research on the implementation and effects of Jamaica’s Zones of Special Operations.

• CAPRI—Guns Out: The Splintering of Jamaica’s Gangs — Research on gang fragmentation, firearms, policing, and violence in Jamaica.

• UNODC—Caribbean Gangs, Drugs, Firearms and Gang Networks — Regional report with substantial coverage of Jamaican gangs, firearms, trafficking, and organized violence.

Geospatial Resources and Maps

Jamaican official and regional resources

• Government of Jamaica ArcGIS Portal — Search public web maps, dashboards, story maps, and geospatial applications produced by Jamaican agencies.

• National Spatial Planning Information Technology Viewer — Land-use, planning, infrastructure, environmental, and development-related spatial information.

• eLand Jamaica Interactive Map — Parcel, title-reference, valuation-number, address, and land-document searches.

• ODPEM Maps — Disaster, emergency, hurricane, shelter, hazard, and risk-related maps from Jamaica’s disaster-management authority.

• MonaGIS Hazard Online Map — Interactive Jamaican hazard mapping, including exposure to natural hazards and vulnerable locations.

• Jamaica Mineral Information System — Interactive map of mineral resources, geology, quarrying, and related spatial information.

• Mines and Geology Division — Geological maps, mining and quarry information, mineral data, publications, and technical resources.

• Forestry Department GIS — Forest-cover, forest-reserve, watershed, and forestry-related spatial information.

• Water Resources Authority Web Map — Hydrology, wells, aquifers, groundwater, rivers, water resources, and related environmental layers.

• NEPA Protected Areas — Protected-area descriptions and maps for environmental and development investigations.

• PIOJ GIS Maps — Development-planning and socioeconomic maps produced by the Planning Institute of Jamaica.

• Electoral Commission Interactive Boundary Maps — Constituency, electoral-division, and polling-area maps.

• National Works Agency GIS — Road, bridge, drainage, and transport-infrastructure mapping resources.

Open mapping and satellite imagery

• Geofabrik Jamaica OpenStreetMap Downloads — Download Jamaica’s OpenStreetMap data in formats suitable for GIS analysis.

• OpenStreetMap Export — Export streets, buildings, addresses, amenities, and other open map features for selected Jamaican areas.

• HDX Jamaica Roads — Downloadable Humanitarian OpenStreetMap road-network data.

• HDX Jamaica Health Facilities — Downloadable mapped health-facility locations.

• Copernicus Browser — Browse, compare, create time series, and download Sentinel satellite imagery over Jamaica.

• USGS EarthExplorer — Search Landsat, aerial, elevation, and other remote-sensing datasets by place, date, or coordinates.

• NASA Worldview — Daily global satellite imagery useful for hurricanes, fires, smoke, flooding, dust, and environmental change.

• Old Maps of Jamaica

Flight & Vessel Tracking

Aircraft and flights

• Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority Aircraft Registry — Official · Free. Search Jamaican aircraft by registration mark, model, serial number, operator, owner or lessor, airworthiness status, and other fields; records can be exported.

• Sangster International Airport Live Flights — Official arrivals and departures for Montego Bay.

• Flightradar24 Jamaica Airports — Live and recent flight information for Jamaican airports. Some historical features require payment.

• FlightAware—Norman Manley International Airport — Live and recent flight activity for Kingston’s main international airport.

• FlightAware—Sangster International Airport — Live and recent flight activity for Montego Bay.

• ADS-B Exchange — Unfiltered aircraft-tracking map with registration, transponder, altitude, route, and movement information where available.

• OpenSky Network API — Programmatic aircraft-state and flight-data access; registration may improve access limits.

Ships and ports

• Port Authority of Jamaica — Official port information, terminal material, maritime statistics, development documents, and port-sector notices.

• Kingston Wharves Vessel Arrival Schedule — Official vessel-arrival information for Kingston Wharves.

• Kingston Freeport Terminal Vessel Schedule — Official container-vessel and terminal schedule information.

• Maritime Authority of Jamaica — Official maritime regulator, with ship-registration, seafarer, safety, legal, and industry information.

• Jamaica Ship Registry — Requirements and information for ships registered under the Jamaican flag.

• Maritime Jamaica Certificate Verification — Verify certain seafarer certificates or check application status.

• MarineTraffic—Port of Kingston — Live AIS positions, vessel details, port calls, arrival estimates, and movement history; advanced history is paid.

• VesselFinder—Port of Kingston — Vessel positions, port calls, expected arrivals, ship details, and photos.

• Equasis — Free account required. Search ships and shipping companies, ownership and management records, inspections, classifications, and safety information.

• IMO Global Integrated Shipping Information System — Official global search for ship and company particulars, IMO numbers, maritime-security information, and state-submitted records.

• Global Fishing Watch Vessel Viewer — Free current and historical vessel-identity and activity information, especially valuable for fishing and maritime investigations.

People Search

• Companies Office of Jamaica Company Search — Find company records associated with directors, shareholders, proprietors, and company secretaries.

• Supreme Court of Jamaica Judgments — Search decisions by party name, case number, judge, year, neutral citation, or delivery date.

• Court of Appeal Civil Judgments — Search appellate decisions involving individuals, companies, public bodies, estates, and civil disputes.

• General Legal Council Practising Attorneys — Official list for verifying whether an attorney is authorized to practise.

• Real Estate Board Public Register — Verify real-estate dealers, salespeople, and developers by name or registration details.

• Professional Engineers Registration Board—Registered Engineers — Verify registered Jamaican engineers and professional specializations.

• Architects Registration Board—Licensed Practitioners — Current practising-licence information for architects.

• Dental Council of Jamaica Registered Dentists — Official dentist-registration information and published lists.

• Electoral Commission—Members of Parliament — Names, constituencies, parties, and other information about elected MPs.

• Electoral Commission Parliamentary Election Results — Historical candidate names, parties, constituencies, votes, and election results.

• JCF Wanted Persons — Official police notices; a wanted notice is not a finding of guilt.

• JCF Missing Persons — Official missing-person announcements and public appeals.

• FindYello Jamaica — Jamaican business, professional, government-office, and selected residential directory listings.

• Registrar General’s Department Online Services — Apply for official birth, marriage, death, adoption, and related civil-registration documents. This is not an unrestricted public people-search database.

• FamilySearch—Jamaica Civil Registration, 1880–1999 — Search historical birth, marriage, and death records across Jamaica’s 14 parishes; a free account may be required.

• Jamaican Family Search — Historical Jamaican genealogy transcriptions, directories, newspapers, estate records, monumental inscriptions, and family material.

• Jamaica Archives and Records Department Holdings — Guide to government, legal, administrative, genealogical, and historical records held by Jamaica’s national archives.

• National Library of Jamaica Digital Collections Search — Search photographs, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, books, posters, and other digitized historical records.

• ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database — Search people, companies, intermediaries, jurisdictions, and addresses appearing in major offshore-data investigations. A match is not proof of wrongdoing.

• OpenSanctions—Jamaica — Search Jamaican people and entities appearing in sanctions, politically exposed person, public-office, and related datasets. Verify all matches against primary sources.

Media Outlets

State-Owned, Public-Service, and Official Government Media

• Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica—PBCJ — Jamaica’s public-service broadcaster and a statutory body under the government ministry responsible for information. It broadcasts parliamentary sittings and produces educational, cultural, public-affairs, and government-related programming.

• Jamaica Information Service—JIS — An executive agency of the Government of Jamaica responsible for communicating government policies, programmes, projects, speeches, announcements, and public information through articles, radio, television, photography, and other media.

Independent and Privately Owned Media

Newspapers and Digital News

• Jamaica Gleaner — Major privately operated national newspaper and digital news outlet covering politics, courts, crime, business, sports, commentary, and public affairs. It is published by The Gleaner Company (Media) Limited and forms part of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group.

• Jamaica Star — Privately operated popular newspaper and digital outlet associated with the Gleaner. It focuses heavily on crime, courts, entertainment, community reporting, sports, and human-interest stories. It is also part of the RJRGLEANER media portfolio.

The Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica Star, Radio Jamaica News, and Television Jamaica are separate media brands but belong to the same RJRGLEANER Communications Group.

• Jamaica Observer — Privately owned national newspaper and online news service covering national affairs, politics, crime, business, sports, lifestyle, entertainment, and Caribbean developments.

• Our Today — Privately operated digital news outlet headquartered in Kingston. The publication describes itself as an independent digital news service and covers Jamaican, Caribbean, business, political, lifestyle, and international news.

Television, Radio, and Multimedia

• Radio Jamaica News — Radio and digital news service covering national news, politics, business, crime, sports, and regional affairs. It belongs to the RJRGLEANER Communications Group.

• Television Jamaica—TVJ — Privately operated commercial television network carrying news, current-affairs programmes, interviews, sports, entertainment, and national-event coverage. TVJ is also part of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group.

• Nationwide News Network — Privately operated radio and digital newsroom with a strong emphasis on breaking news, political reporting, current affairs, interviews, analysis, and investigative reporting. The Broadcasting Commission lists Nationwide News Network Limited as the licensed operator.

• CVM Television — Privately operated television and digital news outlet covering Jamaican news, politics, business, crime, sports, entertainment, and current affairs. CVM was acquired by VertiCast Media Group in 2022 and continues to operate as part of that private media group.

• IRIE FM — Privately operated national radio station combining Jamaican news, sports, community affairs, current affairs, entertainment, reggae, and cultural programming. The licensed operator is Grove Broadcasting Company Limited.

Investigative Journalism

Dedicated Investigative Outlets

• 18 Degrees North Investigations — Independent investigative journalism publication led by Jamaican journalist Zahra Burton. It investigates Jamaican and Caribbean stories involving public expenditure, corruption, corporate activity, conflicts of interest, healthcare, political accountability, government contracts, and cross-border financial issues. Some investigations are available only to subscribers.

• Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network—CIJN — Regional nonprofit investigative journalism network with strong Jamaican connections. It produces collaborative investigations into government corruption, corporations, climate change, human trafficking, transnational drug networks, organized crime, and other issues affecting Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.

• Media Institute of the Caribbean — The Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) is a regional not-for-profit non-governmental organisation registered in Jamaica, with a branch in Trinidad and Tobago, charged with empowering Caribbean journalists and media leaders to contribute to the strengthening of Caribbean democracy through support for an innovative and independent media industry.

Media archives and ownership research

• National Library of Jamaica Newspaper Collections — Guide to historical Jamaican newspapers held by the National Library.

• Broadcasting Commission Licensees — Official list of radio and television licensees, principal officers, contact information, call signs, coverage, and frequencies, useful for researching media ownership.

International investigative databases

• ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database — Search people, companies, intermediaries, jurisdictions, and addresses appearing in major offshore-data investigations. A match is not proof of wrongdoing.

• OCCRP Aleph — Search company records, sanctions data, leaks, court records, procurement material, and investigative datasets; some collections require an approved account.

• OpenSanctions—Jamaica — Search Jamaican people and entities appearing in sanctions, politically exposed person, public-office, and related datasets. Verify all matches against primary sources.

• OFAC Sanctions List Search — Official U.S. search for sanctioned people, organizations, vessels, aircraft, aliases, and identifiers.

Transparency, government and legal research

• Integrity Commission Quarterly Contract Awards — Searchable or downloadable public-contract award information, including contractors, procuring bodies, values, and award periods.

• Contracts Entered Into by Parliamentarians — Integrity Commission information concerning contracts involving parliamentarians or connected interests.

• Government of Jamaica Electronic Procurement — Public procurement opportunities, tender documents, awards, supplier material, and procurement notices.

• Access to Information Unit — Official forms, legislation, guidance, reports, and appeal information for requesting Jamaican government records.

• Integrity Commission Investigation Reports — Reports concerning corruption allegations, public officials, government entities, contracts, and potential misconduct.

• Auditor General of Jamaica Reports — Financial, compliance, performance, information-technology, and special audits of government bodies and public expenditure.

• Legal Information Portal of Jamaica — Search current and historical legislation, legal material, Gazette publications, and related Jamaican legal information.

• Laws of Jamaica Library — Revised laws, subsidiary legislation, Acts of Parliament, Gazette supplements, extraordinary Gazettes, appointed-day notices, and repealed Acts.

• Laws of Jamaica Search — Full-library search across Acts, regulations, subsidiary legislation, and Gazette material.

• Parliament of Jamaica Bills and Acts — Bills, enacted legislation, parliamentary documents, and legislative material.

• Parliamentary Committees, Reports and Minutes — Committee proceedings, reports, minutes, submissions, and oversight documents.

• Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal—Public Bodies Tracker — Civil-society monitoring of governance and reporting compliance by Jamaican public bodies.

• JAMP Legislative Tracker — Tracks selected legislation, parliamentary progress, delays, and governance commitments.

• Cabinet-Approved Public-Sector Board Appointments — Official announcements of appointments to boards of public bodies.

• Electoral Commission Campaign Financing — Campaign-finance rules, forms, disclosure material, guidance, and reports.

• Electoral Commission Political-Party Registration — Registration requirements and official material concerning political parties.

Other OSINT toolkits

• OSINT Tools for North American Countries / Jamaica

• Public Sources 2024 project of SA WEST - Jamaica

• Bellingcat Online Investigation Toolkit — Curated tools for maps, satellite imagery, people and company research, archiving, transport tracking, and image/video verification.

• GIJN OSINT Resources — Investigative-journalism guides and case studies covering open-source research, verification, geolocation, social media, and data investigations.

• GIJN Fact-Checking and Verification Guide — Curated verification methods, tools, training, and reporting checklists.

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine — Retrieve historical versions of websites or preserve a current page before it changes or disappears.

• Google Fact Check Explorer — Search published fact checks by topic, person, claim, or image.

• InVID-WeVerify Verification Plugin — Browser toolkit for extracting video keyframes, examining metadata, reverse-searching images, and verifying social-media content.

Miscellaneous

• Transparency International Jamaica

• WikiLeaks Jamaica

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Entry #54 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• data.gov.my – Malaysia’s official open data portal

• Portal Data Terbuka - Archive of the data.gov.my page

• Department of Statistics Malaysia – Malaysia’s own Department of Statistics under Ministry of Economy which host multiple open source data sites

• World Bank Open Data — Malaysia has decades of economic and development indicators.

• UN Data — Malaysia aggregates international statistics.

• UNDP Human Development Reports includes country-level HDI and inequality data.

• IMF Data covers macro indicators like GDP and current account balances.

• The Asian Development Bank Data Library covers Southeast Asian development data.

• Humanitarian Data Exchange — Malaysia hosts COD boundary files curated for humanitarian use.

Company Registries

• SSM e-Search – In Malaysia, all companies are required to be registered with the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM). Each registered company is assigned a unique SSM registration number, which can be searched on this page.

• Free Malaysian local business listing site, online business directory Malaysia – MalaysiaListings

• Malaysia’s Verified Online Business Directory Portal – BusinessList.my

• Malaysia Business Directory

• Malaysia’s Largest Business Directory, Classifieds & Marketplace Updated June 2026 Yellow Pages Malaysia

• OpenCorporates aggregates Malaysian SSM data alongside 130+ other jurisdictions and is searchable for free.

• Orbis by Bureau van Dijk and D&B Hoovers are paid but comprehensive for financial and ownership data.

• LinkedIn Company Search is useful for headcount and key personnel.

• Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) assigns Legal Entity Identifiers and is useful for cross-border corporate verification.

Land & Property Records

• Welcome to National Property Information Centre - NAPIC - NAPIC stands for the National Property Information Centre (Pusat Maklumat Harta Tanah Negara). It is a division of Malaysia's Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) under the Ministry of Finance. The portal is the government's official source for Malaysian property market data and statistics. NAPIC is a market intelligence portal, not a land registry. It does not tell you who owns a property.

• Laman Web Rasmi JUPEM - The official portal for eKadaster, a system operated by Malaysia's Department of Survey and Mapping (JUPEM). (search: eKadaster Negeri)

• iProperty and PropertyGuru are private portals with transacted price data and listings.

• EdgeProp Malaysia provides transacted prices, overhang statistics, and NAPIC data in a friendlier interface.

• Brickz.my is specifically focused on subsale transacted prices pulled from JPPH records.

• Each state land office (Pejabat Tanah) maintains its own registry. Selangor's is eTanah Selangor.

Geospatial Data and Maps

• DOSM GeoHUB - Open source GIS provided by Malaysian Government.

• Penang GeoHub - Official Penang geospatial portal with 2D/3D thematic maps and open geospatial data.

• Kelantan GIS (Kel-GIS) – Kelantan GIS portal for public and government mapping applications.

• Laman Web Rasmi JPSSelGIS – Open source Selangor GIS website

• Sistem Maklumat Geografi Negeri Sembilan – Negeri Sembilan Geographic Information System containing state geospatial data and map layers.

• MeLGIS – Melaka GIS portal

• GeoJohor – Johor GIS portal

• Pahang GIS - Sistem Maklumat Geografi Negeri Pahang - Pahang GIS portal

• KAPBU/Terengganu (MapServer) – Terengganu ArcGIS website

• Kedah GeoPortal - Kedah GIS portal

• TindakMalaysia/Perlis-Maps: Shapefiles, GeoJSON and Source Meta-datas for the state of Perlis - Perlis GeoJSON map

• District Resource Map - Digital Sabah – open source Sabah District Resource Map

• Official Website eLASIS - Open source Sarawak GIS map.

• OpenStreetMap (Overpass Turbo) has dense Malaysia coverage you can query with the Overpass API.

• TindakMalaysia on GitHub has done extensive GeoJSON boundary work beyond just Perlis, including parliamentary and state constituency shape files.

• GADM provides administrative boundary data down to mukim level.

• Copernicus Open Access Hub gives free access to Sentinel satellite imagery covering all of Malaysia.

Flight & Vessel Tracking

• Malaysia-Flagged Vessels — Live AIS Ship Tracker | Voyage Radar | Voyage Radar

• Live Malaysia Airlines Flight Status – FlightAware

• MarineTraffic and VesselFinder are the standard AIS portals with historical track replay on paid tiers.

• FlightRadar24 covers all carriers.

• ADS-B Exchange is notable because it doesn't filter out military or government aircraft the way commercial trackers do.

• All Ports Authorities - Malaysia

People Search

• Google Dorking guide

  • Goverment staff (site: *.gov.my “John.Doe”)

  • University staff (site: *.edu.gov.my “John Doe”)

• Licensed professional

  • Search For Practitioner – Dental practitioner in Malaysia

  • MeRITS-1.0 - Registered Doctor in Malaysia

  • Find A Registered Pharmacist | PRiSMA, MOH

  • Malaysian Bar - Find A Lawyer

  • Lembaga Arkitek Malaysia - Malaysian Architect board

  • PAM Northern Chapter | Official Site - Northern Architect board

  • Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) for registered accountants

  • CIDB Green Card Registry for construction industry personnel

• Data available for Malaysia – OpenSanctions

• SPRM – Corruption offender database

Malaysia's Media Landscape

State / Government-Linked Media

• RTM — national public broadcaster under the Ministry of Communications.

• Bernama — national news agency and official wire service.

Government-Linked or Historically Party-Linked Private Media

• TV3 / ntv7 / 8TV / TV9 — Owned by Media Prima, historically UMNO-linked.

• New Straits Times — English daily under Media Prima.

• Berita Harian — Malay daily under Media Prima.

• The Star — English daily majority-owned by MCA.

• Utusan Malaysia — Relaunched after 2019 bankruptcy, still politically connected.

Mainstream Private Newspapers

• Sin Chew Daily — major Chinese-language daily owned by Media Chinese International Limited (MCIL).

• Nanyang Siang Pau — Chinese-language daily, MCIL-linked.

• China Press — Chinese-language daily owned by Media Chinese International.

Investigative / Watchdog Media

• Malaysiakini — Most consistent watchdog journalism, early 1MDB coverage.

• Sarawak Report — UK-based, broke major stories on 1MDB and Taib Mahmud’s land deals.

• The Edge Malaysia — Business press with strong corporate governance coverage, suspended in 2015 for 1MDB reporting.

• R.AGE — The Star’s investigative and long-form unit covering trafficking, scams, and social issues.

• Projek MM — An independent nonprofit newsroom focusing on data journalism, public policy, and accountability.

Other Toolkis and Resources

• OSINT in Malaysia Resources - Start.me

• OSINT in Malaysia - Github

Miscellaneous

• Transparency International Malaysia

• Wikileaks Malaysia

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Entry #53 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals & Statistical Sources

• INEC (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censo) – Panama’s national statistics institute — census data, demographic surveys, economic indicators, and poverty statistics.

• MEF (Ministerio de Economia y Finanzas) – Public finance data, national budget, fiscal reports, debt statistics, and economic projections.

• BCB – Banco Nacional de Panama – State-owned bank data, financial system overview, and economic publications.

• World Bank Data – Panama – Development indicators, GDP, poverty, governance, and sectoral statistics.

• IMF – Panama Country Reports – Macroeconomic assessments, FSAP reports, Article IV consultations. The 2024 FSAP (Country Report 24/234) is a critical AML/CFT resource.

• ECLAC/CEPAL – Panama – Regional economic and social analysis covering Panama.

• Humanitarian Data Exchange – Panama – Humanitarian and crisis data for Panama.

• OEC – Observatory of Economic Complexity – Interactive trade and export data — key for identifying Colon Free Zone trade patterns and anomalies.

• UN Comtrade – Panama – Official UN trade statistics, essential for trade-based money laundering (TBML) investigations.

• ACP (Autoridad del Canal de Panama) – Panama Canal Authority: vessel traffic statistics, cargo data, toll revenues, and annual reports. Critical for maritime trade intelligence.

• Panama Stock Market (BVPSI)

Financial Intelligence & AML/CFT Framework

Regulatory & Supervisory Bodies

• UAF (Unidad de Analisis Financiero) – Panama’s Financial Intelligence Unit — primary AML/CFT body. Collects, analyzes, and disseminates financial intelligence on money laundering and terrorism financing.

• SBP (Superintendencia de Bancos de Panama) – Banking regulator and supervisor. Publishes financial stability reports, licensed bank lists, and AML compliance updates.

• SSNF (Superintendencia de Sujetos No Financieros) – Regulates non-financial obligated subjects including law firms acting as resident agents, real estate, casinos. Administers the RUBF beneficial ownership registry.

• SMV (Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores) – Securities market regulator — oversees brokers, investment funds, and capital markets.

• SSRP (Superintendencia de Seguros y Reaseguros) – Insurance and reinsurance sector regulator.

• MICI (Ministerio de Comercio e Industrias) – Ministry of Commerce — licenses financial companies, free trade zone operators, and corporate service providers.

• DGI (Direccion General de Ingresos) – Tax authority — RUC (taxpayer ID) verification and fiscal compliance records.

• CNBC (Comision Nacional contra el Blanqueo de Capitales) – National Commission against Money Laundering — coordinates the AML national risk assessment and inter-agency cooperation.

• Contraloria General de la Republica – Supreme audit institution — public expenditure oversight, procurement audits, and government contractor data.

Beneficial Ownership & Corporate Transparency

• RPP (Registro Publico de Panama) – Panama’s official public company registry. Free public search by company name or folio number. Covers sociedades anonimas, foundations, and limited companies.

• Panadata – Best third-party aggregator for RPP data. More user-friendly interface for company searches, director lookups, import records, tenders, and operation permits.

• RUBF – Beneficial Ownership Registry – Panama’s private beneficiary registry. Administered by SSNF. Not publicly accessible — only competent authorities can query. Understanding its scope is essential for assessing transparency gaps.

• OpenCorporates – Panama – Global corporate data aggregator with Panamanian entity records.

• OpenSanctions – Panama – Sanctioned individuals and entities connected to Panama.

International AML/CFT Assessments

• FATF – Panama Country Profile – Financial Action Task Force — Panama’s compliance status and grey listing history (June 2019 to October 2023).

• IMF FSAP – Panama AML/CFT Technical Note (2024) – – IMF Country Report No. 24/234. Most comprehensive recent analysis of Panama’s AML/CFT vulnerabilities, corporate sector, and beneficial ownership gaps.

• Basel AML Index – Panama – Annual ML/TF risk scoring by the Basel Institute on Governance.

• GAFILAT (FATF-Style Regional Body) – Latin America’s FATF regional body — typologies reports, risk assessments, and mutual evaluation methodology.

Offshore Structures, Shell Companies & Major Leaks

Core Investigative Databases

• ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database – Searchable database combining Panama Papers, Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, and Offshore Leaks. Search by name to find offshore entities, officers, intermediaries, and jurisdictions.

• Panama Papers – ICIJ – – The 2016 investigation based on 11.5 million leaked files from Mossack Fonseca. Exposed 214,000+ offshore entities linked to world leaders, criminals, drug traffickers, and celebrities.

• Pandora Papers – ICIJ – – The 2021 investigation — 11.9 million files from 14 offshore service providers, including several Panama-linked firms. The largest journalism investigation in history.

• Paradise Papers – ICIJ – – 2017 investigation with 13.4 million records involving offshore structures connected to Panama.

• FinCEN Files – ICIJ – – 2020 investigation based on leaked US Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) — reveals major banks processing suspicious transactions routed through Panama.

Offshore Structure Vehicles: Key Investigation Points

• Colon Free Zone (ZLC) – Official Portal – The world’s second-largest free trade zone. A documented vehicle for trade-based money laundering, over-invoicing, and narco-money laundering. Company registrations and trade data available.

• Panama Canal Authority – Cargo Statistics – Cargo type, origin, destination, and vessel data transiting the Canal. Useful for identifying trade flow anomalies.

• Global Financial Integrity (GFI) – Research on trade misinvoicing, illicit financial flows, and Panama-specific TBML reports.

• Tax Justice Network – Financial Secrecy Index – Panama’s ranking and profile in the global financial secrecy index. Detailed analysis of corporate transparency gaps and banking secrecy indicators.

Sanctions, PEPs & Financial Crime Databases

• OFAC Sanctions Search (U.S. Treasury) – Search Panama-connected individuals and entities on US sanctions lists. Covers narco-trafficking, corruption, sanctions evasion, and Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNT).

• OpenSanctions – Aggregated global sanctions, PEP data, and criminal watchlists — highly effective for Panama entity screening.

Company Registries & Business Intelligence

• RPP (Registro Publico de Panama) – Official public registry — search active/inactive companies, foundation data, directors, and registration dates. Free public access.

• Panadata – Best third-party aggregator for RPP data. Includes import/export records, tenders, operation permits, and business intelligence.

• MICI – Business Registry & Licensing – Ministry of Commerce business registration, licensing, and investment window.

• DGI – RUC Taxpayer Lookup – Verify Panama’s Registro Unico de Contribuyentes (taxpayer ID) for companies and individuals.

• SBP – Licensed Banks Directory – Official list of licensed banks operating in Panama’s International Banking Centre. Key for shell bank risk identification.

• SMV – Securities Market Registry – Registered issuers, brokers, investment advisors, and securities filings.

• Info-Clipper – Panama Company Search – Dun and Bradstreet-sourced company profiles and credit data for Panamanian firms.

Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking & Security

• Insight Crime – Panama Profile – The definitive English-language source for organized crime analysis in Panama: drug trafficking networks, Darien Gap dynamics, gang profiles, state-criminal nexus, and port corruption.

• Organized Crime Index – Panama – GI-TOC scoring of Panama across all organized crime categories including criminality and resilience.

• UNODC – Panama – UN Office on Drugs and Crime: drug seizure statistics, trafficking route analysis, and law enforcement data.

• TRACCC – Illicit Trade in Central America (Panama) – George Mason University report on Panama as a regional hub for drugs, arms, and counterfeit goods trafficking.

• Global Peace Index – Panama – Country ranking on peacefulness and internal security conditions.

• Numbeo Crime Index – Panama – Crime perception data for Panama.

• World Prison Brief – Panama – Prison population data and incarceration trends.

• IOM – Darien Gap Migration & Smuggling Tracking – Real-time migration flow data and smuggling indicators through the Darien Gap — the primary land corridor from South America.

Corruption, Governance & Accountability

• Transparency International – Panama – – Corruption Perceptions Index, country reports, and governance assessments.

• TI Panama (Fundacion para el Desarrollo de la Libertad Ciudadana) – Panama’s national Transparency International chapter — the primary local anti-corruption watchdog.

• Panama Compra (SECP) – Panama’s official e-procurement portal — government tenders, contracts, and supplier registrations. Essential for tracking politically exposed procurement.

• Contraloria General – Audit & Procurement Data – Public audit reports, official asset declarations, and government expenditure oversight.

• Freedom House – Panama – Annual reports on political rights, civil liberties, and governance quality.

• Ministerio Publico – Fiscalia Anti-Corrupcion – Panama’s anti-corruption public prosecutor. Press releases on indictments, investigations, and financial crime prosecutions.

• ICIJ – Odebrecht / Lava Jato Coverage – ICIJ’s reporting on the Odebrecht multinational bribery scandal and its Panama dimension, including the Martinelli sons’ convictions.

• Global Integrity – Panama – Anti-corruption governance assessments and accountability indices.

Land, Property & Real Estate Intelligence

• RPP – Property Registry – Panama’s official land and property registry — ownership records, mortgages, encumbrances, and transfer history.

• MIVIOT (Ministerio de Vivienda y Ordenamiento Territorial) – Ministry of Housing — construction permits, housing market data, and territorial planning records.

• INEC – Real Estate & Construction Statistics – National statistics on construction permits, building activity, and property market trends.

• Panadata – Property Data – Property-linked company data extracted from the public registry.

• Global Financial Integrity – Real Estate TBML Reports – Research specifically on real estate as a money laundering vehicle in Panama and the Colon Free Zone.

People Search & Civil Records

• Tribunal Electoral de Panama – Electoral tribunal managing civil registration (births, deaths, marriages), ID verification, and voter rolls.

• TE – Cedula Lookup – Verify Panamanian national identity documents using Cedula number.

• Social Searcher – Multi-platform social media search for Panama-based profiles and content.

• DEA – Panama Fugitives – US DEA wanted persons connected to Panama.

• US BIS Entity List – Panama – Panama-based entities subject to US export controls and debarment.

Litigation, Judicial & Regulatory Records

Panama’s judiciary faces chronic independence concerns. The June 2024 acquittal of all 28 Mossack Fonseca defendants — including the firm’s founders — due to insufficient evidence and chain-of-custody failures was widely condemned by transparency advocates.

• Organo Judicial de Panama – Panama’s judicial branch — court decisions, case lookups, and judicial publications.

• Ministerio Publico – Prosecutions – Public prosecutor press releases on financial crime indictments and case progress.

• Gaceta Oficial Digital de Panama – Official government gazette — laws, decrees, corporate changes, and regulatory publications.

• Contraloria General – Reports – Government audit reports, asset declarations of public officials, and fiscal oversight.

• ASEP (Autoridad Nacional de los Servicios Publicos) – Public services regulator — utility concessions, licensing decisions, and regulatory filings.

• IACHR – Panama – Inter-American Commission on Human Rights country documentation and precautionary measures.

Journalism, Media & Investigative Sources

Independent & Investigative Media

• La Prensa (Panama) – Panama’s most influential independent newspaper. Founded 1980. Key source for financial crime, corruption, and political coverage.

• La Estrella de Panama – One of Panama’s oldest newspapers — national political and financial coverage.

• Panama America – National newspaper with economic and political reporting.

• El Siglo – National daily with broad news coverage.

• Foco Panama – Independent investigative journalism focused on human rights and social justice.

• Newsroom Panama – English-language independent journalism on news, business, and expat affairs.

• The Panama News – Independent English-language online newspaper.

International Investigative & Financial Crime Coverage

• ICIJ – Panama Coverage Archive – All ICIJ investigations involving Panama, including the Panama Papers search database.

• Insight Crime – Panama – Organized crime, drug trafficking, and security analysis.

• El Pais – Panama – Spanish flagship daily with Panama financial and political coverage.

• Reuters – Panama – International newswire coverage of Panama.

• Bloomberg – Panama Finance – Financial and business news on Panama’s banking and economic sector.

Press Freedom Monitoring

• RSF (Reporters Without Borders) – Panama – Press freedom index and country reports documenting legal harassment of journalists.

• CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists) – Panama – Tracks journalist threats, legal actions, and press freedom violations.

Human Rights & Civil Society

• Human Rights Watch – Panama – – Country reports on governance, Darien Gap migrants, indigenous rights, and police accountability.

• Amnesty International – Panama – – Human rights reports and advocacy on Panama.

• CEJIL (Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional) – Regional human rights litigation and advocacy.

• IACHR – Panama – – Inter-American Commission on Human Rights country reports and legal proceedings.

• ICNL – Panama Civic Freedom Monitor – – Tracks civil society legal frameworks and civic space in Panama.

• TI Panama – Anti-corruption watchdog and civil society accountability work.

WHOIS, Domain & Cyber Intelligence

• NIC.pa – Domain Registry – Panama’s official .pa domain registration authority.

• Whois.domaintools.com – WHOIS lookups for any domain including .pa registrations.

• ViewDNS.info – WHOIS, DNS history, IP geolocation, and reverse IP lookups.

• crt.sh – Certificate Transparency Logs – SSL certificate records — useful for discovering subdomains of Panamanian financial entities.

• Shodan – Search for internet-connected devices and exposed infrastructure in Panama.

Maps, Maritime & Satellite Intelligence

• ACP – Panama Canal Traffic & Vessel Data – Vessel transits, cargo types, and maritime statistics from the Canal Authority.

• Marine Traffic – Panama – AIS real-time and historical vessel tracking in Panamanian waters, ports, and Canal approaches.

• FlightAware / FlightRadar24 – Aircraft tracking for private and government flights through Panama’s airspace.

• Google Earth / Earth Engine Timelapse – – Satellite time-series imagery — useful for Colon Free Zone infrastructure changes and Darien Gap land use monitoring.

• Global Forest Watch – Panama – Deforestation and land use change monitoring in the Darien region.

• Mapillary – Panama – Street-level imagery for urban reconnaissance in Panama City and Colon.

• IOM – Darien Gap Tracking – – Migration flow data and human smuggling indicators through the Darien.

Think Tanks & Research Institutions

• CSIS – Americas Program – – US think tank with analysis on Panama Canal security, governance, and organized crime.

• Wilson Center – Latin American Program – Research on Panamanian political economy and regional security issues.

• WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America) – Panama – Policy research on corruption, security, and governance in Panama.

• IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) – Panama – – Development projects, financial sector analysis, and governance research.

• Tax Justice Network – Global financial secrecy and tax haven research with Panama-specific reports and FSI scores.

• Global Financial Integrity (GFI) – Illicit financial flows research with multiple Panama-specific studies on TBML and capital flight.

• Basel Institute on Governance – Panama – AML/CFT risk scoring and governance research.

• Carnegie Endowment – Panama Governance – Governance and anti-corruption analysis for Panama.

Procurement, Tenders & Government Contracts

• Panama Compra (SECP) – Panama’s official e-procurement system — all government contracts and tenders.

• Contraloria General – Public Contracts – Audit authority with contract oversight and government expenditure tracking.

• TendersInfo – Panama – Aggregated international tender alerts including Panama.

• EU TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) – EU procurement portal including Panama-related contracts funded by EU institutions.

• ACP – Canal Procurement – Panama Canal Authority procurement notices and contractor data.

Miscellaneous & Additional Resources

• Internet Archive – Panama – Archived web content from Panamanian media and government sources.

• Bellingcat – Financial Crime OSINT Guides – Open-source investigation methodology and guides applicable to Panama research.

• Wikileaks – Panama Cables – Leaked US diplomatic cables referencing Panama including narco-corruption concerns.

• CCIAP (Camara de Comercio, Industrias y Agricultura) – Panama Chamber of Commerce — business directory and trade data.

• SAPI – Intellectual Property Registry – Panama’s IP registry — trademarks and patents.

• GIJN – Panama Investigative Resources – Global Investigative Journalism Network guides and Panama case studies.

• Financial Secrecy Index – Tax Justice Network – Detailed Panama secrecy score, banking opacity indicators, and comparative data.

• Egmont Group – FIU Network – Global network of financial intelligence units; Panama’s UAF membership and cross-border STR sharing context.

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Two provisions moving through Congress — Section 224 of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Section 622 of the Fiscal Year 2027 Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) — would expand defence technology cooperation and intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel. Supporters describe the measures as a practical response to a rapidly deteriorating security environment. Critics see the legislation as another step towards deeper American entanglement in one of the world’s most volatile regions, with some even claiming it is a full merger.

The debate comes at a moment when the Middle East is experiencing overlapping crises. The aftermath of Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel continues to shape regional politics. Israel’s military operations in Gaza and along the Lebanese border have generated intense international scrutiny. Direct tensions between the United States and Iran have sharpened concerns over escalation. Meanwhile, drones, cyber operations, proxy forces and long-range missiles are increasingly challenging traditional military assumptions.

Against that backdrop, Congress is considering legislation that would institutionalise closer cooperation between two countries whose intelligence and defence establishments are already among the closest in the world.

The question is whether these provisions represent a significant strategic shift — or simply a formalisation of realities that already exist.

Building a Defence Technology Architecture

The first provision, Section 224 of the FY2027 NDAA, focuses on defence technology cooperation.

At its core, the measure is bureaucratic rather than revolutionary. It would require the US secretary of defence to designate an executive agent responsible for coordinating and accelerating defence technology cooperation with Israel. The goal is to create a central mechanism for synchronising research, development, testing, evaluation and industrial collaboration that currently occurs across multiple agencies and programmes.

The provision identifies areas in which cooperation could be expanded, including missile defence, counter-drone systems, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, cyber defence, directed energy, autonomous systems, biotechnology and network integration. It also encourages exploration of joint ventures, co-production arrangements and pathways for moving promising technologies from research projects into operational military programmes.

Supporters argue that such coordination is increasingly necessary. Israel has gained extensive operational experience defending against missile barrages, drone attacks and cyber threats. American officials and lawmakers who favour deeper cooperation contend that lessons learned from recent conflicts could prove valuable for US military planners facing similar challenges elsewhere.

Yet Section 224 is more limited than some of its critics suggest.

It does not create an unrestricted technology-transfer regime. It does not provide Israel automatic access to American defence programmes. Nor does it eliminate export-control requirements or legal safeguards governing sensitive military technology. Existing regulations, including those governing defence exports and technical data transfers, would remain in force.

In practical terms, the provision creates a framework for coordination rather than a mandate for unlimited sharing.

A More Consequential Intelligence Measure

If Section 224 seeks to streamline defence cooperation, Section 622 of the FY2027 Intelligence Authorization Act has potentially greater significance for the intelligence community.

The measure would require the president, acting through the director of national intelligence and, where necessary, the secretary of defence, to “expand and enhance” intelligence sharing with Israel.

The language reflects congressional concern over a threat environment increasingly shaped by Iran, Iranian-aligned armed groups, missile proliferation, cyber threats and regional instability. Intelligence cooperation would encompass issues ranging from terrorism and sanctions evasion to missile warning, unmanned aerial systems, adversarial technology proliferation and cybersecurity threats.

The provision also contains a politically significant requirement: intelligence sharing with Israel could not be materially reduced, suspended or limited unless the president identifies a specific national security concern justifying such action.

Supporters view this as an effort to ensure continuity and predictability in a strategically important relationship. Critics view it as an attempt to make future policy changes more difficult.

Yet even here, the legislation contains important limitations.

The bill explicitly states that intelligence sharing remains subject to applicable law and to the protection of intelligence sources and methods. That language is critical. It means the legislation does not override classification rules, eliminate compartmentation procedures or abolish long-standing intelligence safeguards.

Contrary to some claims circulating in political debates, the proposal would not merge American and Israeli intelligence services. It would not provide unrestricted Israeli access to US intelligence databases. Nor would it compel the release of every intelligence product collected by American agencies.

The distinction matters because intelligence cooperation is not a binary choice between complete sharing and complete separation. In practice, intelligence relationships operate through carefully controlled disclosure processes involving classification reviews, releasability determinations and protections for sensitive sources.

Those mechanisms would remain in place.

Why Supporters See Strategic Value

Advocates of the legislation argue that the security environment increasingly rewards closer cooperation.

Iran and Iran-aligned groups have demonstrated growing capabilities in missiles, drones and cyber operations. Regional conflicts have underscored the importance of early warning systems, integrated air defence networks and rapid intelligence dissemination.

Supporters argue that enhanced intelligence sharing could improve missile warning, strengthen force protection for US personnel, improve counter-drone operations and support broader deterrence efforts.

They also contend that closer technological collaboration could accelerate innovation at a time when defence planners are seeking to adapt to rapidly evolving threats.

From this perspective, the legislation is less about favouring one ally than about addressing practical military challenges. Proponents often point to missile defence and counter-drone technology as areas where operational experience accumulated in the Middle East could have broader relevance for American forces and partners.

Some also view the measures through the lens of regional integration. The Abraham Accords opened new possibilities for security cooperation between Israel and several Arab states. Supporters argue that improved intelligence sharing and defence coordination could contribute to broader regional warning architectures and missile defence networks.

In that interpretation, the legislation forms part of a larger effort to create a more interconnected regional security framework.

The Concerns of Critics

Opponents and sceptics acknowledge the value of intelligence cooperation but question whether codifying expansion in statute is wise.

One concern involves what intelligence professionals sometimes describe as “disclosure creep”. Even if legal safeguards remain intact, critics worry that sustained congressional pressure to expand sharing could gradually shift institutional incentives toward approving more disclosures.

The risk, they argue, is not that sensitive information would suddenly become unrestricted. Rather, it is that bureaucratic defaults could evolve over time, increasing the volume of information shared and creating additional opportunities for compromise.

Counterintelligence specialists also note that every expansion of information sharing increases exposure. More personnel, networks, industrial partners and technical systems inevitably create a larger attack surface for espionage or cyber intrusion.

Technology transfer presents another area of concern. Joint development programmes can offer substantial benefits, but they also raise questions about intellectual property protection, supply-chain security, foreign influence risks and long-term dependency on proprietary technologies.

Critics further argue that statutory requirements could reduce policy flexibility. Future administrations confronting changing regional circumstances might find it more difficult politically and procedurally to reduce intelligence cooperation, even if broader foreign policy priorities shift.

For some observers, the legislation also raises broader questions about America’s role in the region. They worry that deeper institutional integration could make it harder for Washington to distance itself from controversial military operations or regional disputes.

Formalising What Already Exists?

A central question is whether the legislation represents a transformational change or an incremental one.

The answer may be somewhere in between.

The United States and Israel already maintain extensive intelligence and defence relationships. Cooperation on missile defence, counterterrorism, military technology and regional security has developed over decades. Intelligence exchanges occur routinely, and joint defence initiatives are well established.

In that sense, the legislation does not create a relationship from scratch.

Its significance lies instead in institutionalisation. By creating reporting requirements, establishing coordination mechanisms and embedding expectations in statute, Congress would be signalling that deeper cooperation is a long-term policy objective rather than a temporary administrative preference.

That distinction may prove important.

Future administrations retain substantial authority over implementation. Intelligence disclosure decisions, classification determinations and foreign policy judgments would still reside largely within the executive branch. Existing laws governing classified information, export controls and intelligence protection would remain intact.

But the legislation would create stronger political and procedural incentives in favour of continued cooperation.

A Signal as Much as a Policy

Legislation often matters not only for what it requires but for what it communicates.

To supporters, these provisions send a message that the United States intends to strengthen partnerships in response to a more dangerous regional environment. To critics, they signal a deepening commitment at a time when many aspects of US policy toward Israel remain fiercely debated.

The practical effects may emerge gradually rather than dramatically. More joint research projects. More intelligence exchanges. More reporting to Congress. More coordination around missile defence, cyber threats and regional warning systems.

What the legislation is unlikely to produce is the sweeping transformation described by some of its most enthusiastic supporters or most alarmed detractors.

It would not erase national boundaries between intelligence services. It would not create unrestricted access to classified information. It would not dissolve the legal and bureaucratic controls that govern intelligence and defence cooperation.

Instead, its most probable legacy would be subtler but still significant: a deeper institutional framework linking two already close security partners, reinforcing cooperation in defence technology and intelligence while making future retrenchment more difficult.

In a region where security challenges are becoming more interconnected, Congress appears intent on ensuring that the US-Israel relationship becomes more deeply embedded in the architecture of American national security policy. Whether that ultimately improves stability or creates new complications will depend less on the legislation’s text than on how future administrations choose to implement it.

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Open Data Portals

• data.gov.ua — Unified State Open Data Portal - Main national open data portal operated by the Ministry of Digital Transformation. Contains 80,000+ datasets across government sectors.

• Official Statistics Portal of Ukraine

• (Article) Evaluating the open data ecosystem in Ukrainian municipalities

• Verkhovna Rada Open Data Portal - Parliamentary open-data system with laws, voting records, MPs, draft legislation, and APIs.

• Zakon Rada (Legislation Database) - Legal database of Ukrainian legislation and нормативно-правові акти.

• National Bank of Ukraine Open Data - Financial, banking, exchange-rate, and regulatory open datasets.

• Municipal Open Data Portals

  • Kyiv Open Data

  • Lviv Open Data

    • Open Data Portal of the Lviv Regional State Administration (Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)

• Vernadsky National Library Repositories - Scientific publications and archives.

• OAI.org.ua - Ukrainian open-access repository initiative.

• EU Open Data Portal Coverage for Ukraine - EU aggregation and interoperability of Ukrainian datasets.

• Ukraine Refugee Situation - Operational Data Portal

• Edata.gov.ua is the official Ukrainian government platform for public finance transparency and open budget data, called Є-data (E-data). It is operated under Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance.

• CityScale.com.ua - Know a better place - It's an information portal that represents data about life conditions in Ukraine.

• Migration Data Portal - Ukraine

• World Bank Data - Ukraine

• Humanitarian Data Exchange - Ukraine

• Official Websites of some City Councils:

  • The Kyiv City Council

  • The Dnipro City Council

  • The Odesa City Council

• National project website DREAM for Public Investment Open Management System

Company Registries

• Unified State Register (EDR) - Official business/entity registration system.

• Opendatabot - Aggregates Ukrainian company, court, sanctions, debt, and registry data.

• YouControl - Business intelligence and corporate registry analytics platform.

• Clarity Project - Procurement analytics and company transparency portal.

• SMIDA - Stock-market disclosure portal and securities reporting system.

• VKURSI - Comprehensive Ukrainian business intelligence and due-diligence platform.

• BizProfile / Бізнес Профіль - Business profile aggregation service.

• EDRPOU Lookup Portals - Multiple mirror/search systems around the Ukrainian company identifier (ЄДРПОУ).

  • edrpou.ubki.ua/ua

  • ua-region.info

• ubki.ua is the official website of the Ukrainian Bureau of Credit Histories (UBKI / УБКІ) — one of the largest credit bureaus in Ukraine. It stores and manages credit history information for individuals and businesses.

• Supreme Court / Court Registers

  • Insolvency checks

  • Liquidation status

  • Creditor proceedings

• State Register of Sanctions - The register contains more than 20,000 individuals and legal entities considered to be subject to sanctions. The register is maintained by the NSDC Office.

• Ukraine NSDC State Register of Sanctions - OpenSanctions

• BI Prozorro - Procurement analytics portal.

  • Find companies winning tenders

  • Analyze supplier networks

  • Export procurement data

• Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce & Industry - Contains announcements for Ukrainian and foreign companies.

• NACP Beneficial Ownership Database - Beneficial ownership and anti-corruption records.

• Open Ownership (International) - Cross-border beneficial ownership data including Ukrainian entities.

• OpenCorporates - Ukraine

• OCCRP Aleph - Investigative database platform.

  • Ownership tracing

  • Corruption investigations

Land, Maps, and Geospatial Data

• StateGeoCadastre (Держгеокадастр) - Main authority for land administration.

  • Land reform information

  • Land valuation

  • Geospatial services

  • Survey records

  • Agricultural land data

• Unified State Electronic System in Construction

• Public Cadastral Map of Ukraine - Land parcels and cadastral data (Official Source).

• Cadastral Data - Kadastrova karta (Not Official Source)

• Cadastral Data - Kadastrova Karta UA (Not Official Source)

• OpenStreetMap Ukraine - Community-maintained mapping data.

• Unified Register of Court Decisions - Property litigation and ownership disputes.

• Prozorro.Sale

  • Foreclosed properties

  • State property sales

  • Insolvent asset auctions

• Sentinel Hub

• Copernicus Browser

• Ukrainian Geological survey

Conflict Resources

• Project Mariupol - This tool provides investigators with the ability to cross reference 3 types of information/data in order to attribute war crimes to a military unit.

• Ukraine Support Tracker - A database of military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

• DeepStateMap.Live - Open-source intelligence map tracking the Russo-Ukrainian war.

• Air Alarm Map Ukraine - Live civil-alert and siren tracking.

• Liveuamap - Real-time conflict mapping and event aggregation platform founded during the Crimea annexation period.

• Institute for the Study of War - terrain-control maps

• Noel Reports - Live OSINT event map and military-intelligence aggregation platform.

• Ukraine War Data Hub - Aggregates maps, datasets, and analytical resources.

• GeoConfirmed - Volunteer OSINT verification project focused on geolocating conflict footage.

• Bellingcat - The most famous OSINT investigative organization. Specialized in war crimes, military analysis, and verification.

• Oryx - Tracks visually confirmed military equipment losses.

• Military Land - Ukraine military operation mapping and unit analysis.

• Eyes On Russia

• VIINA 2.0 / Violent Incident Information from News Articles

• Ukraine Daily Update

• Massive Missile Attacks on Ukraine Dataset

• Russo-Ukrainian War Map - BlackBirdGroup

• Russian Casualties

• Russian losses in the war with Ukraine - Mediazona

• TopCargo200 - Documenting every senior Russian officer, along with other notable individuals, killed in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

• Russian Officers Killed In Ukraine - GoogleSheet

• Poteru.net - Russia’s Losses in the War

• Ualossese.org - Ukraine’s losses in the war

• Heavy Weapon tracking sheet

• Ukraine Conflict Monitor - ACLED

• Kiel Institute Ukraine aid tracker

• UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Protection of Civilians

• War crimes in Ukraine tracker

• Holding Russia Accountable Table and Tracker

• Investigating Russia Worldwide

• EU's efforts to make Russia legally and financially accountable for its invasion of Ukraine

• childrenofwar.gov.ua is an official Ukrainian government platform called “Children of War”. It was created to document, track, and help locate children affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including children who are missing, deported, forcibly transferred, injured, killed, or otherwise impacted by the war.

• Companies Still Operating in Russia
  

Judicial & Legal Information Portals

• Unified State Register of Court Decisions - Public access to Ukrainian court rulings.

• Judicial Authority Portal - Official judiciary information portal.

Flight & Vessel Tracking

• Flightradar24

• ADS-B Exchange

• MarineTraffic

• VesselFinder

People Search

• Ukraine Telegram channels and groups catalog

• Namechk - Username availability/search across platforms.

• (Paid) GetContact - Crowdsourced caller-ID database (Contains Ukrainian numbers).

• Unified Register of Court Decisions - Official Ukrainian court database.

  • Litigation

  • Addresses

  • Business disputes

  • Family cases

• Судова Влада (Judicial Authority Portal) - Court scheduling and participant data.

• Peacemaker / Myrotvorets - Controversial activist database.

  • Persons accused of anti-Ukrainian activity

• Work.ua - Employment profiles and resumes.

• Rabota.ua - Recruitment platform.

• Ukraine Genealogy - FamilySearch

• Gesher Galicia - Galician-region historical archives.

• PRA.IN.UA - Ukrainian genealogy community.

• Ukrainian State Archives

• Google Dorking:

  • “Firstname Lastname” site:ua

  • Search Ukrainian Court Mentions:

    • "Firstname Lastname" site:reyestr.court.gov.ua

  • Search Business Associations

    • "Firstname Lastname" site:youcontrol.com.ua

    • "Firstname Lastname" site:opendatabot.ua

Media Outlets

Governmental / State-Linked Media

• United News / Telemarathon State-coordinated wartime television broadcast launched after the 2022 invasion.

• Suspilne (UA:PBC) Ukraine’s national public broadcaster.

• Ukrinform Official Ukrainian national news agency. Good for: government statements, official updates, diplomatic news.

• ArmyInform Official Armed Forces information platform. Focus: military updates, defense operations, official battlefield reporting.

• United24 Media Government-backed English-language media platform launched during the war. Focus: international audiences, war reporting, culture and diplomacy.

Mainstream National Media

• TSN (1+1 Media) One of Ukraine’s largest television news brands.

• ICTV Major commercial TV broadcaster.

• STB Popular mainstream broadcaster.

• Inter Historically influential television network; historically associated with more pro-Russian political currents before 2022. Joined the state-coordinated United News telethon following the full-scale invasion in February 2022.

• Novyi Kanal Entertainment and news network.

• Channel 24 (24 Канал) Major digital-first broadcaster with strong online presence.

• RBC-Ukraine Large online news agency.

• UNIAN One of the largest Ukrainian news agencies.

• Liga.net Business, politics, and analysis outlet.

• NV / New Voice of Ukraine Widely respected mainstream analytical publication with English coverage.

Independent Media

• Ukrainska Pravda One of Ukraine’s most influential independent political outlets. Co-founded by Georgiy Gongadze and Olena Prytula in 2000. Known for: investigations, anti-corruption reporting, political coverage.

• Hromadske Independent public-interest digital media organization. Known for: Euromaidan coverage, war reporting, documentary journalism.

• Kyiv Independent Major English-language independent outlet, founded in November 2021 by journalists who were fired from the Kyiv Post after a dispute over editorial independence with the owner. Popular internationally for: war coverage, investigations, English-language reporting.

• Kyiv Post Ukraine’s oldest English-language newspaper, founded in 1995. Currently active under owner Ruslan Kivan.

• Babel Modern digital-native publication. Focus: explainers, politics, society, war analysis.

• LB.ua (Left Bank) Political and analytical outlet.

• Espreso TV Independent TV/news platform with strong political talk coverage.

• Censor.NET High-traffic political and military news site. Known for: frontline reporting, fast updates, military analysis.

• Telegraf Independent socio-political outlet.

Investigative Journalism

• Bihus.Info Top Ukrainian anti-corruption investigative project. Known for: corruption leaks, procurement investigations, political exposés.

• The Crimean Center for Investigative Reporting conducts journalistic investigations and produces “National Security Issue” TV Program, as well as organizes trainings on investigative reporting for journalists coming from Crimea, Ukraine, and Belarus.

• Data Journalism Agency Data journalism and investigative analytics. Excellent for: data visualization, disinformation tracking, OSINT-style analysis.

• The Regional Press Development Institute has become a leading Ukrainian NGO supporting investigative journalism in Ukraine.

• Slidstvo.Info Investigative journalism organization. Collaborates with OCCRP and international journalists.

• NGO AJI ”FOURTH ESTATE” is a nonprofit team of journalists based in western Ukraine.

• NGL Media, formerly known as Nashi Groshi Lviv, is an independent center of investigative journalism launched by the NGO Lviv Group.

• Nikolaev Center for Investigative Reporting (NikCIR) is an independent nonprofit organization in Southern Ukraine, devoted to investigative reporting.

• The Donetsk Institute of Information is a nonprofit news organization based in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.

• Schemes (Схеми) RFE/RL investigative project focused on Ukraine.

• Nashi Groshi Procurement and corruption investigations.

• Truth Hounds - Investigating War Crimes

Opposition / Alternative Political Media

• Channel 5 Historically associated with Petro Poroshenko and opposition-oriented politics.

• Priamyi (Прямий) Opposition-leaning broadcaster.

Russian Opposition & Exile Media Covering Ukraine

These are not Ukrainian outlets but are widely consumed by Ukrainians and OSINT researchers.

• Meduza Russian independent exile media based in Latvia.

• TV Rain / Dozhd Russian independent television channel in exile.

• Mediazona Investigative Russian independent outlet. Known for: Russian casualty tracking, court investigations.

• Novaya Gazeta Europe Exiled continuation of Novaya Gazeta.

English-Language Ukraine-Focused Media

• Kyiv Independent

• Kyiv Post

• New Voice of Ukraine

• Ukrinform

• Euromaidan Press Volunteer-driven English-language analysis platform. Strong for: OSINT, analysis, translations.

• UkraineWorld English-language media and analysis initiative.

Diaspora / International Ukrainian Media

• Ukrainian Weekly (USA) Long-running diaspora newspaper.

• Svoboda (Ukrainian diaspora media)

• New Pathway (Canada) Ukrainian-Canadian newspaper.

• Forum Daily Russian/Ukrainian diaspora outlet in the US.

Fact-Checking & Disinformation Monitoring

• StopFake Leading anti-disinformation project.

• Detector Media Media monitoring and propaganda analysis.

• VoxUkraine Fact-checking and policy analysis.

• NAFO – North Atlantic Fella Organisation

• Russian Disinformation - NewsGuard

Media Ownership & Monitoring

• Profile of Media Ownership and Potential Foreign Influence Channels in Ukraine

• Media Ownership Monitor Ukraine Tracks ownership structures and influence.

• Institute of Mass Information (IMI) Media freedom monitoring.

• Academy of Ukrainian Press Research on the Ukrainian media landscape.

OSINT-Relevant Telegram & Digital Media

• Trukha Massive Telegram-first media outlet.

• DeepStateUA Military mapping and media project.

• InformNapalm Volunteer intelligence community. Combines: OSINT, cyber investigations, military analysis.

Government Tenders

• Prozorro - Public procurement transparency system for government tenders.

• Dozorro - Civil oversight and monitoring portal for Prozorro procurement activity.

• Prozorro.Sale - Transparent electronic auctions for public assets, leases, and privatization.

• BI Prozorro - Procurement analytics portal.

  • Find companies winning tenders

  • Analyze supplier networks

  • Export procurement data

Other toolkits and resources

• Open Data Toolkits

• OSINT FOR UKRAINE's OSINT toolkit

• Russo-Ukrainian War (Open) Data Sources

• OSINTukraine - OSINT Tools For Ukraine

Anti-corruption Agencies and Bodies

• NABU - National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine

• SAPO - Specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office

• Anti-corruption Action Centre (Corruption in Defence)

Miscellaneous

• Diia Open Data / Дія.Відкриті дані - Open-data competence center, education, analytics, and tooling around Ukrainian open data.

• Groupint is an application developed by OSINT for Ukraine that enables investigators to scrape data from Telegram groups and connect "who's talking to whom" through an intuitive and visually appealing graph user interface.

• Diia is Ukraine’s all-in-one digital government platform where citizens can store official documents and access government services directly from their phone or browser.

• Transparency International Ukraine

• Wikileaks - Ukraine

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Entry #51 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• DRC Customs Portal (DGDA) - Official customs and excise authority portal for import/export procedures, tariffs, and customs services.

• DRC Open Data Portal - Public datasets for demographics, economy, development, and statistics.

• REGIDESO Water Utility Portal - National public water distribution company portal.

• Ministry of Interior and Security

• World Bank - DRC

• Humanitarian Exchange Data - DRC

• General Info on DRC - Britannica

• Online Journals of DRC

• UNESCO - DRC

• African Center for Strategic Studies - DRC

• World Food Program Data - DRC

• World Trade Information - DRC

• OpenAfrica - DRC

Business Information

• Official online portal for the RCCM National of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - Essentially the DRC’s business registration and commercial registry system.

• ARSP Registered Companies List - Public list of registered subcontracting companies in DRC. Useful for mining, oil, and procurement verification.

• Info-clipper DRC Company Search

• Yellow Pages DRC

• OpenCorporates - DRC

• DR Congo B2B Business Directory - ProdaAfrica

• General Export Import Logistics Logistics Directory

• List of Companies in DRC - Afrikita

• Sanctioned Companies DRC - OpenSanctions

Geospatial Data and Maps

• DRC GeoData - EastView

• Geospatial Data DRC - GRID3

• CIESIN Geospatial Data for the Democratic Republic of Congo

• Old Maps of DRC

Flight & Vessel Tracking

• Port of Matadi in DR Congo

• MyShipTracking - Matadi Port

• Airports in Democratic Republic Of The Congo

• Live Air Congo Flight Status

People Search

• Free Africa People Search

• (Paid Service) Verification Services in Democratic Republic of Congo

• JOSHUA Project - DRC People Groups

• Democratic Republic of the Congo Online Genealogy Records

• OpenSanctions - Contains 1,644 entities connected with the Congo-Kinshasa. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• Google Dorking:

  • "name" site:cd

  • "name" Kinshasa

  • "phone number"

  • "email@example.com"

• Useful For Phone Number Search:

  • Truecaller

  • Sync.me

  • Eyecon

• Many DRC mentions never reach English search indexes.

  • Useful sites:

    • Actualite.cd

    • Radio Okapi

    • Jeune Afrique

    • Africa Intelligence

  • Search example:

    • site:actualite.cd “Full Name”

      site:radiookapi.net “Full Name”

Media Outlets

• DR Congo media guide - BBC

State-Owned Media

• Radio Télévision Nationale Congolaise (RTNC) - RTNC is the national public broadcaster of the DRC and serves as the main government television and radio network.

Private / Independent Media

• (Radio) Radio Okapi (radiookapi.net) - UN-backed network

• (TV) Antenne A

• (TV) Canal Kin Télévision (CKTV)

• (News Site) Mediacongo.net

• (Press) Le Potentiel

• (Press) Le Soft

• (News Site) Congo Planete

Think Tanks

• Ebuteli - A Congolese research institute focused on politics, governance and violence.

• Congo Research Group (CRG) - Independent research center based at New York University's Center on International Cooperation.

• RDPI – Research for Development and Prosperity Institute - A policy research organization dedicated to analyzing public policies and promoting individual liberty, free markets, and limited government in the DRC.

• APL-DRC – Action for Peace and Liberty - An independent think tank focused on public policy, economics and governance in the DRC.

• CERECK – Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa - A think tank based in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. “Our mission is to produce and disseminate ideas that lead to informed action-oriented strategies for the recovery of DRC’s sovereignty and sustainable holistic development.“

Tenders

• TendersInfo - DRC

• DRCTenders

• Global Tenders - DRC

Miscellaneous

• The Constitution Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo

• Transparency International - DRC

• EU Sanctions Map - DRC

• International Criminal Court - DRC

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Entry #50 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• INIDE (Instituto Nacional de Información de Desarrollo) - Nicaragua’s national statistics institute — censuses, population, poverty, health, and demographic surveys.

• BCN (Banco Central de Nicaragua) - Economic indicators, inflation, exchange rates, trade balance, and annual publications including ‘Nicaragua en Cifras’.

• World Bank Data – Nicaragua – Development indicators, GDP, poverty, governance metrics.

• IMF – Nicaragua – Macroeconomic outlook, Article IV consultations, debt and inflation data.

• ECLAC (CEPAL) – Economic and social analysis by the UN regional commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Humanitarian Data Exchange – Humanitarian datasets, crisis indicators, and displacement data.

• ReliefWeb – Nicaragua - Humanitarian situation reports, NGO updates, and crisis response data.

• OEC – Observatory of Economic Complexity – Interactive trade and export data visualizations for Nicaragua.

• UN Comtrade – Nicaragua – Official UN trade statistics.

• BOLSANIC (Bolsa de Valores de Nicaragua) – Stock exchange transactions and securities data.

• Datasets in Nicaragua - Dateno

• Nicaragua Datasets - Data.gov

• Nicaragua Migration Data (IOM) – International Organization for Migration data on Nicaraguan displacement and emigration trends.

• RPINIC (Registro de Propiedad Intelectual) – Nicaragua’s intellectual property registry — trademarks and patents.

Company Registries & Business Information

• Registro Público de Nicaragua – Official public registry for companies and properties. Online queries available by company name or NAM (Número Absoluto Mercantil).

• MIFIC (Ministerio de Fomento, Industria y Comercio) – Ministry portal with commercial regulations, investment procedures, and trade information.

• DGI – RUC Taxpayer Lookup – Verify RUC (Registro Único del Contribuyente) — Nicaragua’s business tax ID.

• OpenSanctions – Nicaragua – Sanctioned individuals and entities in Nicaragua.

• OpenCorporates – Global open corporate data, including some Nicaraguan business records.

• Info-Clipper – Nicaragua Company Search – Dun & Bradstreet-powered company profiles, directors, and credit data for Nicaraguan firms.

• ICEX España – Nicaragua – Spanish trade intelligence reports on Nicaragua’s commercial environment.

• CAMANICA (Cámara de Industrias de Nicaragua) – Industry chamber data and business association information.

• Business Directory - Visita Nicaragua

Land & Property Records

• Registro Público (Property Registry) – Handles real estate deeds, property transfers, mortgages, and encumbrances. Online status lookups available.

• INETER (Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales) – Geographic and cadastral data, land use maps, and hazard assessments.

• MARENA (Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales) – Environmental permits, protected area data, and land concessions.

People Search & Civil Records

• CSE (Consejo Supremo Electoral) – Online voter verification, electoral rolls lookup, and polling station assignment using Cédula de Identidad number. (Try using a VPN if you’re unable to access the website.)

• CSE – Registro Civil – Births, marriages, deaths, divorces, and civil status records. Nicaragua’s civil registry is administered by the CSE. (Try using a VPN if you’re unable to access the website.)

• CSE – Cedulación (ID verification) – Citizen ID (Cédula) verification, renewal status, and certification requests. (Try using a VPN if you’re unable to access the website.)

• CSE – Verificación Ciudadana en Línea – Look up an individual’s voting center using their Cédula number. (Try using a VPN if you’re unable to access the website.)

• Social Searcher – Multi-platform social media search for Nicaragua-based profiles and content.

• DEA – Nicaragua Fugitives & Indictments – US DEA press releases and fugitive listings involving Nicaraguan nationals.

• Nicaragua Genealogy Resources – Historical civil and church records useful for genealogy and identity verification.

• Search Nicaragua Civil Registration 1809-2011

• Nicaragua, Civil Registration, 1809-2014

• Nicaragua Genealogical Records

Litigation & Regulatory Sources

• La Gaceta – Diario Oficial – Nicaragua’s official government gazette: laws, decrees, resolutions, and regulatory publications. (restrictions on access from foreign IP addresses.)

• Procuraduría General de la República – Attorney General — legal representation of the state and administrative sanctions.

• DEA – Nicaragua Investigations – US Drug Enforcement Administration press releases on Nicaragua-linked drug trafficking indictments.

Sanctions, Financial Crime & PEPs

• OFAC Nicaragua Sanctions (U.S. Treasury) – Official US Treasury sanctions list targeting Nicaraguan regime officials for human rights abuses and corruption.

• EU Sanctions Map – Nicaragua – European Union restrictive measures against individuals and entities in Nicaragua.

• OpenSanctions – Nicaragua – Aggregated sanctions, criminal watchlists, and PEP data for Nicaragua.

• Global Financial Integrity (GFI) – Reports on illicit financial flows and trade misinvoicing involving Nicaragua.

• FATF (Financial Action Task Force) – Nicaragua’s AML/CFT compliance status and mutual evaluation reports.

• Organized Crime Index – Nicaragua – Criminality and resilience scores, organized crime landscape analysis.

WHOIS & Domain Intelligence

• NIC.ni – Domain Registry – Nicaragua’s official .ni domain registration authority, administered by UNI.

• Whois.domaintools.com – WHOIS lookups for any domain including .ni registrations.

• ViewDNS.info – WHOIS, DNS history, IP geolocation, and reverse IP lookups.

• Netlas – Internet-wide asset and certificate search engine with powerful, flexible query capabilities for reconnaissance and OSINT.

• Shodan – Search for internet-connected devices and infrastructure in Nicaragua.

Crime & Security OSINT Sources

• Insight Crime – Nicaragua – Investigative analysis of organized crime, gang activity, drug trafficking, and state-criminal relationships in Nicaragua.

• Organized Crime Index – Nicaragua – ENACT/GI-TOC scoring of criminality and resilience across categories.

• UNODC – Nicaragua – UN Office on Drugs and Crime: official crime statistics, drug trafficking data, and law enforcement indicators.

• OSAC (Overseas Security Advisory Council) – US State Department crime and security advisories for Nicaragua.

• Global Peace Index – Nicaragua – Country ranking on peacefulness, internal conflict, and security apparatus.

• Numbeo Crime Index – Nicaragua – User-contributed city-level crime perception data.

• Transparency International – Nicaragua – Corruption Perceptions Index and governance reports.

• INTERPOL Red Notices – Nicaragua – International wanted persons alerts searchable by country.

• World Prison Brief – Nicaragua – Prison population, incarceration rates, and detention conditions.

Human Rights & NGO Sources

International Mechanisms

• IACHR – MESENI (Special Monitoring Mechanism for Nicaragua) – The IACHR’s dedicated monitoring mechanism for Nicaragua, operating from Washington DC since being expelled in 2018.

• UN GHREN (Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua) – Established by the UN Human Rights Council in 2022. Has found crimes against humanity committed by the regime.

• UN Human Rights Office – Nicaragua – OHCHR reports and statements on the human rights situation in Nicaragua.

• IACHR – Nicaragua – Inter-American Commission on Human Rights annual reports, precautionary measures, and country documentation.

• Human Rights Watch – Nicaragua – Reports on political prisoners, repression, media crackdowns, and governance failures.

• Amnesty International – Nicaragua – Reports and advocacy on political detentions, enforced disappearances, and civil liberties.

Civil Society (Exiled / Diaspora)

• Nicaragua Nunca Más – Human rights collective documenting state violence, political prisoners, and torture since 2018. Operates from exile in Costa Rica.

• CENIDH (Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos) – Historically Nicaragua’s most prominent human rights organization. Operations severely restricted since 2018.

• ICNL – Nicaragua Civic Freedom Monitor – Tracks legal restrictions on civil society, NGO laws, and civic space closures.

• Freedom House – Nicaragua – Annual country reports on political rights, civil liberties, and internet freedom.

• International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) – Nicaragua – Reports and advocacy on Nicaraguan human rights violations.

• FLED (Foundation for Freedom of Expression and Democracy) – Tracks press freedom, journalist exile, and media closures in Nicaragua.

• JX Fund – Nicaragua – European Fund for Journalism in Exile monitoring of 26 Nicaraguan exiled media outlets.

Political Prisoners & Accountability

• Persons Deprived of Liberty in Nicaragua - IACHR

• GIEI Nicaragua – Final Report (2018) – Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts report concluding crimes against humanity were committed during the 2018 repression.

• CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists) – Nicaragua – Tracks journalist arrests, exiles, and press freedom violations.

• RSF (Reporters Without Borders) – Nicaragua – Press freedom index and country reports.

Local Journalism & Media Sources

State-Aligned / Regime Media

These outlets are controlled or closely aligned with the Ortega-Murillo regime. Useful for monitoring official propaganda, regime messaging, and disinformation patterns.

• El 19 Digital – Official Sandinista FSLN party outlet and primary digital mouthpiece of the Ortega-Murillo regime.

• Canal 8 (Multinoticias) – State television channel controlled by the ruling family.

• Canales 4, 9, 13 – Television channels operated by entities linked to the Ortega-Murillo family.

• Radio Ya / Radio Sandino – Government-affiliated radio stations. Part of the official media apparatus.

Independent / Opposition Media (Mostly in Exile)

Nearly all independent Nicaraguan media now operate from exile, primarily Costa Rica and the United States, following systematic confiscations and journalist persecutions since 2018.

• Confidencial – Nicaragua’s most prominent independent investigative outlet. Newsroom exiled in Costa Rica. Directed by Carlos Fernando Chamorro.

• La Prensa – Nicaragua’s historic independent newspaper. Print edition suspended since 2021 police raid; continues online from exile.

• 100% Noticias – Independent TV news channel; confiscated in 2018. Continues as a digital exile platform.

• Divergentes – Investigative outlet focused on corruption, governance, and human rights across Central America with primary focus on Nicaragua. Operates from Costa Rica.

• Artículo 66 – Digital investigative journalism focused on Nicaragua’s political and social crisis.

• Nicaragua Investiga – Investigative digital outlet, operates from exile.

• Despacho 505 – Independent digital media covering Nicaraguan politics and society from exile.

• La Lupa – Independent digital outlet with feminist and social justice focus.

• Galería News – Visual storytelling-focused independent Nicaraguan media.

• Havana Times – Nicaragua – a Cuba/Nicaragua independent outlet that covers Nicaragua critically.

• Radio Darío – Legacy independent radio station, now operating as a digital exile platform.

Regional & International Coverage

• Insight Crime – Nicaragua – Organized crime, security, and investigative reporting.

• Infobae – Nicaragua – Latin American regional outlet with regular Nicaragua coverage.

• El País – América – Nicaragua – Spanish flagship newspaper’s Nicaragua section.

• Deutsche Welle – Nicaragua (Español) – German international broadcaster’s Spanish-language Nicaragua coverage.

• NTN24 – Nicaragua – Colombia-based TV news; blocked inside Nicaragua but a key source for exile coverage.

Think Tanks & Research Institutions

Independent / Exiled (Formerly Active in Nicaragua)

• FUNIDES (Fundación Nicaragüense para el Desarrollo Económico y Social) – Independent economic think tank. Dissolved by the regime in 2022. Leadership exiled. Historical reports remain a valuable resource.

• IEEPP (Instituto de Estudios Estratégicos y Políticas Públicas) – Research on governance, security sector, and public policy. Dissolved by the regime in December 2018.

Government-Affiliated (Regime-Aligned)

• UNAN-Managua (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua) – Public university research; closely monitored by the regime. Published academic output remains accessible.

International Research on Nicaragua

• CSIS Americas Program – US-based think tank with significant analysis on Nicaragua’s democratic decline and sanctions policy.

• Wilson Center – Latin American Program – Research and events on Nicaraguan governance, migration, and human rights.

• WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America) – Policy advocacy and research on Nicaragua’s human rights and democracy crisis.

• AS/COA (Americas Society / Council of the Americas) – Business and policy analysis covering Nicaragua.

Procurement & Government Tenders

• SNICAC (Sistema Nicaragüense de Contrataciones Administrativas) – Nicaragua’s public procurement portal — contracts, tenders, and supplier registrations.

• TendersInfo – Nicaragua – Aggregated international tender alerts including Nicaragua.

• TendersOnTime – Nicaragua – Global tender database with Nicaragua-specific listings.

• EU TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) – European Union procurement portal — includes Nicaragua-linked projects funded or managed by EU institutions.

• Development Aid – Nicaragua Projects – Tracks international development projects and funding in Nicaragua.

Maps & Satellite Intelligence

• Google Earth / Earth Engine Timelapse – Satellite imagery and land use change over time — particularly useful for mining arc, deforestation, and infrastructure monitoring.

• Mapillary – Nicaragua – Street-level imagery contributed by the public — useful for urban reconnaissance.

• INETER – Geographic Institute – Nicaragua’s official geographic and seismic monitoring institute. Provides maps, hazard data, and territorial data.

• Global Forest Watch – Nicaragua – Deforestation monitoring via satellite data — critical for Caribbean Coast and mining arc investigations.

• ACNUR/UNHCR Displacement Maps – Nicaragua – – Population displacement, migrant routes, and refugee data visualizations.

• Marine Traffic – Nicaragua – AIS-based vessel tracking in Nicaraguan waters and Caribbean ports.

• FlightAware / FlightRadar24 – Aircraft tracking for private and government flights in and out of Nicaragua.

Dark Web & Illicit Marketplace Monitoring

• Ahmia – .onion Search – Surface-web accessible search engine for .onion (dark web) content.

• OnionSearch Engine – Alternative search engine for Tor hidden services.

• Dark.fail – Mirrors & Indexes – Directory of verified dark web marketplace links.

• Reddit – Nicaraguan Diaspora Communities – Public Reddit communities discussing Nicaraguan affairs, migration, and current events.

Catholic Church Persecution — Sources & Monitoring

Primary Tracking & Documentation

• Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church (Martha Patricia Molina) – The most comprehensive ongoing tracker of religious persecution in Nicaragua. Nicaraguan lawyer Martha Patricia Molina has documented over 19,836 attacks against clergy and laity since 2018, updated through annual editions. Presented to Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican in October 2025.

• Mosaico CSI (Nicaragua) – Catholic news outlet reporting on the Church situation inside Nicaragua. One of the few sources with on-the-ground Church coverage still operating. Reports on clergy surveillance, ordination bans, and diocesan conditions.

• ACI Prensa – Nicaragua – Catholic News Agency’s Spanish-language service with extensive coverage of the Nicaraguan Church persecution, including bishop expulsions and property confiscations.

• Catholic News Agency (CNA) – Nicaragua – English-language CNA coverage of religious freedom in Nicaragua.

• National Catholic Reporter – Nicaragua – In-depth investigative reporting on the Church crisis, including interviews with exiled clergy.

Religious Freedom Monitoring Bodies

• USCIRF (US Commission on International Religious Freedom) – Nicaragua – Annual reports and hearing testimony on Nicaragua’s status as a Country of Particular Concern for religious freedom violations.

• US State Department – International Religious Freedom Report – Nicaragua – – Annual country report documenting specific incidents of religious persecution, arrests of priests, and government actions against Church institutions.

• Open Doors – Nicaragua – Annual World Watch List ranking; Nicaragua rated #32 in 2025 for Christian persecution. Tracks surveillance, ministry restrictions, and property seizures.

• ECLJ (European Centre for Law and Justice) – Nicaragua – Legal and human rights analysis of the Church persecution, including UN submissions and advocacy reports.

• International Christian Concern – Nicaragua – Reports on the broader crackdown on Christian organizations, including evangelical churches and the closure of over 1,500 faith groups.

Key Events & Context for Investigators

• Bishop Rolando Álvarez – Case Documentation – Álvarez (Diocese of Matagalpa) was arrested in August 2022, sentenced to 26 years in prison in February 2023, and ultimately deported to Rome in January 2024 after 18 months of detention. A key reference point for the regime’s judicial persecution of clergy.

• GIEI Nicaragua Report (2018) – Original report concluding crimes against humanity were committed during the 2018 repression, in which the Catholic Church played a critical protective role that triggered the regime’s persecution.

• Confidencial – Church Confiscations Database (2022–2025) – Confidencial’s detailed investigation into 39 properties confiscated from the Catholic Church between 2022 and 2025, documenting their current use by the regime.

• Vatican – Holy See Press Office – Official Vatican statements and diplomatic communications regarding Nicaragua. Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV have both made public statements of concern.

• Nicaragua Nunca Más – Church Persecution Reports – Human rights collective with specific reporting on clergy as political prisoners and the intersection of religious and political persecution.

Exiled Bishops & Dioceses (Current Status)

As of early 2026, four of Nicaragua’s eight diocesan bishops are in exile and ordinations are banned in four dioceses: Jinotega, Siuna, Matagalpa, and Estelí. The following serve as reference for investigators tracking the Church’s institutional status.

• Conferencia Episcopal de Nicaragua (CEN) – Official Nicaraguan Bishops’ Conference. Despite severe restrictions, remains a reference point for the institutional Church’s position. Bishop Carlos Herrera (exiled) was CEN president.

• Diocese of Matagalpa – Diocese of Bishop Rolando Álvarez (exiled to Rome). Seminary confiscated by the regime in January 2025. A key focal point of the persecution.

• Arquidiócesis de Managua — one of the dioceses where some Church activity is still permitted, though under close surveillance.

Miscellaneous & Additional Resources

• Internet Archive – Nicaragua – Archived web content from Nicaraguan media outlets shut down by the regime. Essential for accessing censored historical content.

• Bellingcat – Investigative OSINT Guides – Open-source investigation guides applicable to Nicaragua research.

• Wikileaks – Nicaragua – Leaked diplomatic cables and documents related to Nicaragua.

• GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network) – Resources and case studies on investigative journalism in Nicaragua.

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Entry #49 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• South Africa Open Data - Covers economic, demographic, and development indicators.

• openAFRICA - One of the largest independent open data repositories in Africa.

• Statistics South Africa

• City of Cape Town Open Data Portal

• Energy Datasets - South Africa

• SAEON Data Portal

• GeoLayers South Africa Dataset Hub

• Open Data South Africa Toolkit

• Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) provides detailed results for audits conducted on on all government departments, public entities, municipalities and public institutions.

• The Bioenergy Atlas for South Africa collects data related to bioenergy resources and energy sector infrastructure across South Africa.

• The DataFirst Open Data portal gives researchers access to high-quality disaggregated data (microdata) from studies conducted in African countries.

• The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) publishes data on election results, voting stations and party lists which can be downloaded or accessed via an API.

• Municipal Money is a website for citizens to view their local government spending and financial performance, and to compare municipalities.

• PMG provides information on parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes, documents and sound recordings of the meeting.

• SAAQIS provides near real-time air quality data from over 70 monitoring stations, as well as key legislation and subnational air quality management plans.

• Vulekamali contains national and provincial budget data and budget process information from National Treasury (NT) and related data contributed by third parties.

• Youth Explorer provides visual insights and easy-to-access to data about young people's education, economic opportunities, family and living environment, and health.

• World Bank Data South Africa

Company Registries

• (Guide) How to Check Company Registration in South Africa

• The CIPC eServices website enables public users to search the name, registration number and directors of all registered companies in South Africa, and to register and manage their own business activities.

• SARS (South African Revenue Service) - VAT/vendor verification

• Open Gazettes South Africa is the biggest freely available collection of Government Gazette in the country and makes the original PDFs documents easy to search and browse online.

• Brabys - Directory-style business search

• Yellosa / Yellow Pages SA

• Business Directory Yep Mall - South Africa

• SARS VAT Vendor Search

• Business Directory South Africa

• OpenSanctions - Contains 5,367 entities connected with South Africa. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• Business Directory - BizCommunity South Africa

People Search

• The People’s Assembly website provides information about elected representatives and the institutions they serve, including positions held, committee attendance and private interests.

• OpenSanctions - Contains 5,367 entities connected with South Africa. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• PersonLookup - South Africa

• FamilySearch - South Africa

• The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa (NARSSA)

• Deeds Office Person Search

• South African Death Records

• Tel-No.net ZA: A free unknown number query service that may show if a number has been reported as spam or scam.

• ReverseCaller South Africa: Lets you check numbers and view spam reviews shared by the community.

Land, Maps and Geospetial Data

• Property Search South Africa

• Property & Deeds Information For South Africa - MyDeedsSearch

• South Africa GeoPortal

• Get Deeds Registry information

• Interactive Old Maps of South Africa

• CDNGI Geospatial Portal has a comprehensive mix of spatial data

• City of Cape Town Map

• A list of judgements concerning land claims cases referred by the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights (CRLR) office or directly from claimants or affected land owners.

• Spatial, land and infrastructure data resources - Open Africa Data Toolkit

Vehicle, Flight & Vessel Tracking

• VIN Check South Africa - FirstCheck

• Database of stolen vehicles

• Vessels Database - VesselFinder

• Marine traffic in South Africa

• Port of Cape Town

• Airports in South Africa

• Live South African Airways Flight Status

Legal and Court Data

• A digital page that shows which cases are being heard, where, and when

• Open By-laws makes the By-laws in municipalities available in an easy-to-access and searchable format by extracting By-law text from PDF documents.

• SAFLII publishes free public access to court judgments across South Africa

• Courts in South Africa

• The official website of the South African Judiciary

• Constitutional Court - This court has the final say on major legal and constitutional issues in South Africa.

• Land Claims Court

• Supreme Court of Appeal

• Court Judgments - LawLibrary

• National Archive - Search Court Data

• Court Cases Archive - Fisa.net

Tenders

• Tenders of The National Department of Health - South Africa

• E-Tenders - Find public sector tender opportunities in South Africa

• Online Tenders South Africa

• EasyTenders South Africa

Media Landscape

State-Owned Media

• SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation)

  • TV: SABC 1, SABC 2, SABC 3

  • Radio: Ukhozi FM, Metro FM, SAFM, etc.

• GCIS (Government Communication and Information System)

  • Publishes official government news and statements

Independent / Private Media

• Media24 (Naspers)

• TimesLIVE

• The Independent Media

• eNCA

• Newzroom Afrika

Investigative Journalism

• Daily Maverick

• amaBhungane

• GroundUp

• Viewfinder

• ANCIR - The South Africa-based ANCIR seeks to strengthen and help sustain African investigative journalism.

• MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism

• The Wits Centre for Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand

• The Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism

Other Toolkits

• Durban / eThekwini Open Data (ODZA / SCODA)

• Open Data South Africa Toolkit

• OSINT South Africa - StartMe Page

Miscellaneous

• Transparency International South Africa

• WikiLeaks - South Africa

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Entry #48 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• National Statistics Office of Georgia

• data.gov.ge - The main national open data portal.

• World Bank Data - Georgia

• Humanitarian Exchange Data - Georgia

• The Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture’s Open Data Portal is part of the Forest and Land Use Atlas of Georgia, which allows for data download. It presents data in various categories, including land use, land cover, biodiversity, threat levels, and protected areas.

• Georgia General Information

• World Health Organization - Georgia

• Ministry of Infrastructure of Georgia

• Official website of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia

• National Bank of Georgia - The central bank of Georgia providing financial data, economic reports, and banking regulations.

• IMF – International Monetary Fund

• Financial Monitoring Service of Georgia - The national body responsible for monitoring financial transactions to prevent money laundering and ensure financial transparency in Georgia.

• Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

• Georgian National Intellectual Property Center (Sakpatenti)

• Daily Currency Exchange Rates 2001-2017

• Georgia’s 2012-2016 Budget (Annual)

• Budget Monitor Georgia

• National Archive of Georgia

Company Registries

• My.gov.ge - Through this website you can search for the registration application of any business entity (individual entrepreneur, commercial legal entity, non-commercial legal entity, etc.)

• National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) - Legal registry data (ownership, official records)

• Enreg.reestri.gov.ge - Search for any business subject (individual entrepreneur, commercial legal entity, non profit legal entity, etc.)

• Companyinfo.ge is a website created by Transparency International Georgia on the basis of the official Business Registry run by the National Agency of Public Registry.

• (Guide) How to check a company from Georgia?

• Info Clipper Georgia

• List of Companies in Georgia

• Open Corporates Georgia

• OpenSanctions - Contains 4,152 entities connected with Georgia. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• OCCRP Alpha - Large catalogue of leaked data

• Yandex Search - Business Directory

People Search

• Georgia (country) Civil Registration

• People of Georgia

• Georgia Country People Search & Finder (Free)

• Members Registry - Georgian Bar Association

• Yellow Pages - Georgia

• OpenSanctions - Contains 4,152 entities connected with Georgia. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• Google Dorking:

  • "name" site:ge
    "name" თბილისი
    "name" + company

Land, Maps and Geospetial Data

• National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) - Land Registry

• Registered real property transactions 2010-2016

• Georgian district's population & coords

• All vilage bubbles - Georgia

• Village population 3d bars - Georgia

• Old Maps of Georgia

• Official geospatial (map/GIS) portal of Georgia’s government

Vehicle, Flight & Vessel Tracking

• Cargo/Vehicle Search - Georgia

• Myauto.ge - Used vehicle marketplace

• Maritime Transport Agency of Georgia - This is the primary national authority for maritime domain awareness.

• Marine Trafic - Georgia

• Live Flight Tracker - Tbilisi Airport

• Flight Aware - Georgia

• FlightRadar24 - Georgia

Legal, Criminal, Court & Sanctioning Records

• Georgian Supreme Court

• Georgian Court Portal

• The information of the current cases in the Tbilisi City Court

• Constitutional Court of Georgia

• Crime Statistics - National Statistics Office of Georgia

• Statistics of Registered Crime

• The official publication system for Georgian laws and legal acts

Media Landscape

State Owned

• The Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB)

• Adjara TV - Regional public broadcaster

Pro-government

• Imedi TV - Widely described as pro–Georgian Dream.

• Rustavi 2 - Closely aligned with the ruling Georgian Dream party.

• Post TV

Opposition

• TV Pirveli

• Formula TV

Independent & investigative media

• Civil.ge - English & Georgian online

• Netgazeti

• Batumelebi

• Studio Monitor (Georgia) was founded in 2005, following the shutdown of that country’s top rated 60 Minutes TV show on Rustavi 2. To protest against political interference, the show’s lead journalists set up Studio Monitor to produce investigative documentaries independently. (GIJN Member)

• Investigative Journalists’ Team “iFact” (Georgia) was founded by a women journalists team in 2016, and includes two investigative newsrooms across Georgia. (GIJN Member)

• The Investigative Media Lab (IML) at the University of Georgia (UG) is a center dedicated to promoting and advancing investigative journalism. (GIJN Member)

Public Procurement and Tenders

• Public Procurement - Georgia

• Tenders Georgia

• E-Tenders Georgia

Miscellaneous

• MY.GOV.GE is the unified electronic services portal of the Government of Georgia.

• Transparency International Georgia

• Wikileaks Georgia

• Georgian Dream (GD) - It’s the official website of Georgia’s governing political party.

• Forbes Georgia

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Open Data Portals

• Open Data Maturity Greece - Factsheet

• data.gov.gr – Greek Open Data Portal - The central government portal for Greece.

• Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) - Offers statistical data on Greece’s population, economy, and social indicators, supporting demographic research and economic analysis.

• Bank of Greece Open Data - Financial and economic datasets (monetary stats, banking indicators)

• CERTH Open Data Hub (Transport & Mobility) - Focus: traffic, mobility, smart transport in Greece

• SoDaNet is the National Research Infrastructure of Greece for the Social Sciences.

• Attica OpenData Portal - Regional open data catalog for Attica, Greece, providing datasets spanning various societal and administrative topics as per regional government initiatives.

• Open Data Corfu - Open data portal managed by the Municipality of Corfu.

• Open data portal for the municipality of Chalandri, Greece.

• OPeNDAP Hyrax catalog hosted by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) Ocean Physics group, exposing thematic collections such as BATHYMETRY, METEO, and OCEAN for remote scientific data access via the DAP protocol.

• Unipi MSc Climate ICT - Provides a rich set of applications, practical examples, and geospatial data, offering valuable material for researchers, students, and professionals who wish to leverage the capabilities of GIS in the study of climate change and its impacts.

• Centralized GIS and open data portal of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, offering access to approximately 90 open datasets.

• SDI Thessaloniki Geonetwork is a spatial data catalog, managed by the municipality or urban authority of Thessaloniki.

• A catalog of geospatial risk data in order to strengthen the Resilience of Municipality of Thessaloniki.

• Open Data portal of the City of Trikala covering Governance, Finance, City Planning, Transportation, Environment, Social Care, Education.

• Greek Open Data Hub (OKFN Greece)

• World Bank Data - Greece

• Humanitarian Data Exchange - Greece

• Ministry of Health - Greece

• Ministry of National Economy and Finance

• Public Sources 2024 project of SA WEST - It contains a collection of reliable links to ministries, government institutions, and local media sources in Greece.

• The Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (Obi) - The Hellenic Industrial Property Organization is the only legally qualified institution for the protection of inventions and industrial designs. It also provides technological information from worldwide patent databases. You can search the Greek national patent register by the owner, inventor, patent number, keyword and other criteria.

• Greece in Numbers is a hub for publicly available data on Greece’s economy and society.

Business Registries and Data

• GEMI – General Commercial Registry (Γ.Ε.ΜΗ.) - The official company registry of Greece. Guide

• The Open Data platform of the Greek General Commercial Registry (GEMI – Γ.Ε.ΜΗ.) - Structured company data via API.

• AADE (Tax Authority) – VAT Verification

• Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX)

• e-Justice Business Registers - EU portal linking national company registers.

• Search companies registered in Greece - HitHorizons

• search.et.gr - Greece Official Gazette search (legal publications about companies).

• OpenCorporates - Greece

• InfoClipper - Greece

• Greek Yellow Pages - XO

• Greece Local Search - Vrisko

• List of Companies of Greece - Wikipedia

• Greece Business Directory - Kompass

• List of Companies of Greece - The Athens Stock Exchange

• Athens Chamber of Commerce

• The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (Hcmc) - The Hellenic Capital Commission provides a list of companies.

• OCCRP Alpha - Large catalogue of leaked data

• Open Sanctions - Contains 2,620 entities connected with Greece. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• The administrative penalties imposed by the Bank of Greece in recent years.
  

People Search

• 11888 - This website provides current Greek phone numbers, addresses, and maps of private individuals, government institutions, and businesses.

• List of people living in Greece sorted by address

• Surename Navigator - Greece

• Greece Phone Number Lookup - ThisNumber

• Greece People Search & Finder

• Online E-Auction Service - Asset auctions of indebted legal entities and individuals. You can search the debtors by name.

• INDEPENDENT AUTHORITY FOR PUBLIC REVENUE (AADE) - A list of debtors with debts in excess of € 150,000. The list is not updated automatically, not very often and is available in Greek only.

• Citizen Service Centers (KEP) - Greece's network of one-stop public service centres: Help citizens submit applications and paperwork to various government agencies without having to visit each one separately; Issue certificates (birth, marriage, residence, etc.)

• FamilySearch - Greece

• Search Greek Ancestry - GreekAnestry

• MyHeritage - Greece

• (Guide Video) Greek Genealogy #5.1: Finding BIrth Information in Greece

• Hellenic Genealogy Geek - Facebook Group

• Hellenic Genealogy Geek - This is a companion to the Facebook Group "Hellenic Genealogy Geek" where you can post your Greek genealogy family queries and other questions.

• Spartan Roots - Genealogy research specializing in the region of Sparta, Greece. Research guidance and tutorials.

• List of People From Greece - Wikipedia

• Open Sanctions - Contains 2,620 entities connected with Greece. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• Profiles of Members of the Hellenic Parliament, including their political affiliations.

Land, Maps and Geospetial Data

• (Guide) Land Registry search in Greece

• Hellenic Cadastre (Ελληνικό Κτηματολόγιο) - It holds highly valuable geospatial and property data.

• View the map & parcel boundaries At maps.ktimatologio.gr you can freely:

  • Browse the cadastral map

  • See parcel shapes and KAEK numbers

  • View building regulations

• Property Search for Rent/Sale Website

• Maps of Greece - University of Texas Libraries

• Old Maps of Greece

• Athens Geoportal - A catalog of geospatial data published by the Municipality of Athens. Users can browse, aggregate, style, and share maps. Data is available in standard formats, and users can upload and manage geospatial data and associated documents.

• The geodata.gov.gr portal is the first attempt to free geospatial data available to the wider Civil Service and to all citizens of Greece.

• Open Geospatial Data Portal of the Decentralized Administration of Crete, featuring integrated datasets (meteorological, hydrological, bathing water quality, etc.).

Legal, Criminal, Court & Sanctioning Records

• (Guide) National ordinary courts

• Supreme Court Greece

• National Criminal Records Portal

• Civil Procedure Hearings Lists - You can find out about the hearings lists of Civil Procedure trials for the next fifteen days (local courts, courts of first instance, and appeal courts).

• Courts - Greece

• (Guide) Courts and Cases

• Greece Judiciary Map

• Organizational Chart of Courts in Greece

• Hellenic Parliament - A database of Minutes from the Greek Parliament meetings, which can be searched by keyword.

• Greece's Transparency Program Initiative provides all government institutions' acts and decisions which they are obliged to upload at the “Transparency Portal.”

mitos.gov.gr (Μητρώο Διοικητικών Διαδικασιών) is Greece's official catalogue of every administrative procedurethat the Greek state offers to citizens and businesses.

Vehicle, Flight & Vessel Tracking

• Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA) - flight schedules & airport info.

• FlightRadar24 - Real-time flight tracking

• Flightaware - Real-time flight tracking

• Athens Airport

• Thessaloniki Airport

• MarineTraffic - Vessel Tracking

• VesselFinder - Vessel Tracking

• FleetMon - Vessel Tracking

• Athens (OASA / OASA Telematics) - Real-time tracking of buses and trolleys.

• Search for vehicle information

• Search for information about your vehicle (MyAuto)

• Vehicle Information by License Number - Android App

Media Outlets

• Who Owns the Media in Greece - Solomon's investigation, "Who Owns the Media" is the first comprehensive effort to document the oligarchs' business activities and interests behind the country's dominant media groups.

State Owned

• ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) - State-owned, covers news, culture, regional content.

• AMNA (Athens-Macedonian News Agency) - Generally aligned with government messaging.

Private/Independent Media

• SKAI TV - Center-right / pro-market

• ANT1 - Centrist - ANT1 (Antenna TV) is one of the largest and most prominent mainstream television networks in Greece.

• MEGA TV - Center-right (business-oriented)

• Alpha TV - Centrist

• OPEN TV - A center-right ideological tilt, particularly in its emphasis on pro-business and economic liberalization themes.

Newspapers

• Kathimerini - Center-right, liberal economic

• Ta Nea - Center-right, liberal economic (historically PASOK-aligned)

• To Vima - Center

• Efimerida ton Syntakton - Left

• Dimokratia - Right / nationalist

Investigative Journalism

• Reporters United is a network of reporters and the first nonprofit organization to support investigative journalism in Greece.

• Solomon is an award-winning non-profit organization based in Greece, that produces journalism in the public interest.

• Inside Story (insidestory.gr) An exclusively digital, subscription-based media outlet launched in 2016, emphasising original long-form reporting and explanatory journalism.

Public Procurement and Tenders

• Central Electronic Registry For Public Procurement - Greek Central Electronic Registry for Public Procurement Pubic provides documents of tenders and public procurement.

• TendersInfo - Greece

• GreeceTenders
  
  

Other Toolkits and Resources

• Open Data Portals Greece Catalogue - Dateno

• OCCRP Databases - Greece

• Public Sources 2024 project of SA WEST - It contains a collection of reliable links to ministries, government institutions, and local media sources in Greece.

Miscellaneous

• Greek Language - This site provides resources for learning and understanding the Greek language, including grammar guides, vocabulary lists, and cultural insights.

• Political parties of Greece – a map of the political landscape

• Transparency International Greece

• Wikileaks Greece

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Entry #46 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• UK Trade Info - View official data published by HM Customs & Revenue, filter by individual trade relations, time period, import or export and trade category.

• Office of National Statistics - The Office for National Statistics is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

• Data Police UK - Open data about crime and policing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

• Food Standards Agency - The FSA is the primary body for food safety and hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Various public datasets concerning food hygiene, animal welfare, allergy alerts, incident reports and more.

• Data Gov UK - The central UK government portal for finding, accessing, and using open, non-personal data published by government departments, public bodies, and local councils. Publicly accessible datasets include those relating to the environment, economy, transport, government spending and defence.

• Defra Data - Search the official Data Services Platform for environmental information by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

• UK Patent Office - Search for intellectual property in the UK.

• Contract Finder - Search for contract information worth £12,000 and more with the UK government and its agencies.

• Tender Finder - Search and apply for high value contracts in the UK public and utilitie sectors.

• UN Stats Division Country Profile - UN trade and economic data for the UK.

• WHO Country Data - Health-related data, statistics, and country profiles from the World Health Organization.

• International Monetary Fund - Economic and fiscal data for the UK.

• OECD Data - Data, policy advise and research for the UK.

• World Bank Data - UK development figures and statistics.

• Open Data Sets - DataKindUK

• UK Power Networks

• (Read) Open data in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

• England:

  • Metropolitan Police (London) - Public data relating to stop and search, knife crime, taser usage, use of force and other crime.

  • City of London Open Data

  • Transport for London - Open Data

  • London Data Store

  • Natural England Open Data Geoportal

  • A comprehensive portal of open data from the West of England

  • Historic England Open Data Hub

  • The borough of Hounslow’s Open Data Portal

• Scotland:

  • Scotland Spatialhub Datasets - The Spatial Hub collects data on a host of topics from local government authorities presents it into accessible Scotland-wide datasets.

  • Scottish Emigration Database - An Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project based at the University of Aberdeen’s, identifying emigration patterns between 1890 and 1960.

  • Open Data Scotland

  • Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data

  • Open Data at the Scottish Parliament

  • Scotland’s Open Data Catalogues

  • Scottish Forestry Open Data

  • Scottish Law Online

  • National Records of Scotland

• Wales:

  • Energy Performance of Buildings Data: England and Wales

  • WWU Open Data Portal

  • StatsWales - Detailed official data on Wales

  • Open environmental data from Natural Resources Wales

  • National Forest Inventory Wales 2023

  • Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables

• Northern Ireland:

  • OpenDataNI portal

  • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

  • Northern Ireland Prison Service Statistics - Official statistics and yearly prison population publications for Northern Ireland.

  • The Place Names gazetteer contains a geographical index of 336 towns and villages across Northern Ireland.

  • Spatial NI Data

Company Registries

• Companies House - Company registration information, registered address, date of incorporation, current and resigned officers, directors, shareholders, corporate filing, mortgage charge data, previous names, insolvency information

• Dissolved Company Search - Search by name or number for companies dissolved between 01 January 1989 and 31 December 2009.

• Disqualified Director Search - Official source to find out if someone has been disqualified from being a company director. It includes details of disqualifications given by the courts, the Insolvency Service, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), HM Treasury through the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), permission to resume director activities (if applicable), other details if available.

• Individual Insolvency Register - Official source to search for information about bankruptcies and insolvencies in England and Wales, including bankruptcy orders, debt relief orders (DROs) and individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs). Records are usually removed within 3 months of an insolvency case ending.

• List of people with additional insolvency restrictions - This page contains details of people who have broken the terms of their bankruptcy or Debt Relief Order. They will have been given a penalty, called a Bankruptcy Restrictions Order (BRO) or Undertaking (BRU) or a Debt Relief Restrictions Order (DRRO) or Undertaking (DRRU). Data usually goes back three months.

• Company Check - a free third-party business register as alternative or back-up to the official one (pulls data from Companies House).

• Endole - a free third-party business register as alternative or back-up to the official one (pulls data from Companies House).

• DRO, BRO, IVA Register Northern Ireland - The official register for debt relief orders, bankruptcy relief orders and individual voluntary arrangements in Northern Ireland.

• Financial Conduct Authority - While not really a business register, the Financial Conduct Authority is the only regulatory body that can authorise and register financial services providers (including cryptocurrency). Their register provides information relating to whether or not a firm or its associated individuals offer licensed activities or if licensing has been revoked.

• (Guide) How to look for records of Companies and businesses - The National Archive

• Yellow Pages UK - Yell.com

• United Kingdom Local Business Directory - InfoBel

• Discover Local Businesses UK

• UK Local Business Directory

• Cross-European Company Search

• The UK Sanctions List - The UK Sanctions List provides information on all current UK sanctions designations made under the 2018 Act.

• Open Sanctions - Contains 25,827 entities connected with the United Kingdom. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• England:

  • London Stock Exchange - The official LSE website where you will find the latest information about stock market news, publicly traded companies, stock information and data analysis.

• Scotland:

  • Register of Insolvency Scotland - The official Insolvency register for Scotland has both a person search option under “Search for Insolvency, Protected Trust Deeds and Trust Deed Adverts” and a company search under “Search companies in Receivership or Liquidation”

  • Historic Scottish companies (1856-present)

  • Business Gateway Scotland - Provides information about Scottish SMEs, startup ecosystem, and company support services.

  • Directory of Companies in Scotland

  • Scottish law Corporate

• Wales:

  • Business Wales - Website run by the Welsh Government supporting businesses in Wales.

  • Company Directory Wales

• Northern Ireland:

  • Individual Voluntary Arrangement Register Northern Ireland - The official IVA register, searchable by name and surname. It maintains open access to information pertaining to agreements between creditors and debtors to pay off (part or all) debt.

  • Disqualified Directors Northern Ireland - The official search wizard for disqualified directors in Northern Ireland. Search by Name, Surname and Trading name.

Land & Property Records

• Rightmove - The UK’s largest private property rental and purchasing service.

• Zoopla - Corporate provider of rental and purchasing services across the UK.

• Private Eye - Interactive map showing land owned in the UK by overseas and offshore companies.

• Map of Offshore Property Ownership - Taxpolicy.org

• England:

  • HM Land Registry - Search property information, such as title deeds and ownership in England and Wales.

• Scotland:

  • Scotland Land Registry - search property information and purchasing price in Scotland.

• Wales:

  • HM Land Registry - Search property information, such as title deeds and ownership in England and Wales.

  • Rent Smart Wales - This register holds verified information on landlords and agents operating in Wales, including reference numbers, licensing and property addresses.

• Northern Ireland:

  • LandWeb Direct - Search property information and ownership in Northern Ireland. Service is restricted to legal, financial and government professionals with no public access for now.

Legal, Criminal, Court & Sanctioning Records

• Supreme Court - Access roughly 1,500 cases heard by the Supreme Court of the UK.

• UK Court Sentences Database

• Find a Court or Tribunal UK

• National Archives - The Find Case Law service provides public access to selected court judgments and tribunal decisions made in England and Wales from 2001 onwards in partnership with the Ministry of Justice, His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service, and the Judicial Office. It includes over 70,000 records from the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court and Asylum & Immigration Tribunal. However, it is not a complete list.

• British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) - A free legal database, based at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. It provides access to 1,001,463 searchable documents including case law and verdicts in England & Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Ireland, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the European Court of Human Rights.

• UK Sanctions List - The official resource for obtaining information about designated people, entities and ships under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.

• Crime Stoppers - An independent charity that maintains a most wanted list for the United Kingdom. Search functionality includes region, crime type and name.

• National Crime Agency Most Wanted List - The official list of most wanted fugitives maintained by the UK’s lead law enforcement agency. It includes those involved in murder, large-scale drug trafficking, rape, and money laundering. This resource replaces the Consolidated List of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI).

• Offenders Database - A community driven resource documenting over 8,400 sex offenders in the UK.

• Serious Fraud Office - This case finder displays information about all public and ongoing investigations and prosecutions of the Serious Fraud Office.

• Burglary Hotspots - Find up to date information about burglary hotspots in the UK.

• The UK Sanctions List - The UK Sanctions List provides information on all current UK sanctions designations made under the 2018 Act.

• Open Sanctions - Contains 25,827 entities connected with the United Kingdom. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• England:

  • Thames Valley Police - Access news updates (including sentencing, missing person updates and more) in Berkshir, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

  • West Midlands Police Wanted - Information about suspects wanted by the police in the West Midlands area.

  • West Yorkshire Police CCTV Gallery - A selection of images of individuals sought by the police, both potential suspects and witnesses. The displayed information includes crime type and date. You can filter by period and location.

  • Merseyside Police News - The News section of the Merseyside police publishes information relating to wanted individuals, missing people and court results in the North West England, covering Liverpool, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley, and St Helens.

• Scotland:

  • Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service - Search judgement or opinions in Scotland from 1999 onwards by keyword, court or date.

  • Judiciary of Scotland - Sentencing Statements, Judgement Summaries and Fatal Accident Enquiries (FAI Determination Summaries).

  • Scotland Criminal Database - search over 950,000 Scottish criminal records, Scottish court data and prison records.

  • Scotland Sheriff Court (criminal) - Over 7,000 records searchable by name, reference number or case name.

  • Scotland Sheriff Court (civil) - Over 2,500 records searchable by name, reference number or case name.

• Wales:

  • WalesUpdates Crime

  • The Crime and Punishment database comprises data about crimes, criminals and punishments included in the gaol files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until its abolition in 1830

  • South Wales Police Constabulary Records, 1967-c2022

  • Cardiff Crown Court

  • Swansea Crown Court

  • Mold Crown Court

  • Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court

• Northern Ireland:

  • Northern Ireland Unlawfully at Large - Official list of individuals on the run in Northern Ireland, maintained by the Department of Justice.

  • Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)

  • Crime Statistics Portal

  • Northern Ireland Department of Justice

  • Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service

  • The Judiciary of Northern Ireland

  • Prison Service Northern Ireland

  • Court Lists Online - Northern Ireland
    

Geospatial Data and Maps

• Secret Bases UK - Maps of known UK military bases.

• UK AIR - The official air quality map, by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

• Private Eye - Interactive map showing land owned in the UK by overseas and offshore companies.

• HMRC Tax Defaulters - Official list maintained by the UK tax authority for deliberate corporate tax defaulters.

• England:

  • Who Owns England? - This map displays major landowners in England, combining public data with Freedom of Information requests.

  • Lancashire Police Traffic Watch - Get realtime traffic updates for the North West of England, including incidents, congestion, road works, events and cameras.

  • Surrey Interactive Map - Official map of Surrey County Council.

  • Cornwall Council Interactive Map - Official map of the Southwest England, UK.

  • Plymouth Maps - Various official government maps for the Plymouth region.

  • Kent Boundaries Map - Official map maintained by Kent County Council.

  • Manchester Map - Map maintained by MappingGM (ExploreGM)

  • GB Maps - Unofficial map of West Yorkshire.

  • Drill Map of London - Gang territorial control in the capital of the UK.

  • Apps.London.Gov - Maps of publicly owned land in the capital region.

  • Train Times - Monitor activity along all bus routes in London.

  • London Picture Map - The London Picture Archive allows to search by keyword or period for pictures of historic London.

  • London Cultural Infrastructure Map - Archives, art centres, cinemas and much more.

  • Map of Islington - Official government map of Islington, Borough of London.

  • Map of Richmond upon Thames - Official government map of Richmond upon Thames, Borough of London.

  • Map of Kensington and Chelsea - Official government map of Kensington and Chelsea, Borough of London.

  • Map of Ealing - Official government map of Ealing, Borough of London.

  • Map of Greenwich - official government map of Greenwich, Borough of London.

  • Old Maps of England

• Scotland:

  • Scotland Spatial Data Portal

  • Scottish Spatial Data Catalogue

  • National Records of Scotland (Geography Products)

  • NatureScot Open Data

  • Crown Estate Scotland Spatial Hub

  • Interactive Map of Scotland (Tourism & Cities)

  • Scotland Regions Map

  • Scotland Administrative Boundaries Map

  • Old Maps of Scotland

• Wales:

  • Lle Geo-Portal (Welsh Government)

  • DataMapWales serves as a source for public sector data in Wales, providing a shared data platform to members of the public and public authorities.

  • National Library of Wales Map Collections

  • Natural Resources Wales Map Viewer

  • Old maps of Wales

• Northern Ireland:

  • Historic Map Viewer - Historic Environment Record of Northern Ireland.

  • Spatial NI (Northern Ireland Spatial Data Infrastructure)

  • Northern Ireland Road Network Maps

  • Old maps of Northern Ireland

Vehicle, Flight & Vessel Tracking

• RAF Watch (raf.watch) is an OSINT aviation monitoring website that provides an interactive map showing activity of United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft.

• MOT Check - See the past results of a vehicle’s MOT (Ministry of Transport) tests, including if it passed or failed, the mileage recorded when it was tested, next MOT date and more.

• FreeCarCheck - Find basic car registration details, if any vehicle is stolen, has finance obligations and more. Search by registration plate number.

• Civil Aviation Authority - The official register of civil aircraft (G-INFO), which contains details for over 18,000 aircrafts. You can search for registered owners, aircraft type, and registration marks (prefix G-)

• CLIP - The Crew List Index Project is a non-profit set up to assist research into the records of British merchant seafarers of the late 19th and early 20th century. Search by vessel or ship name.

• UK Ship Register - The official UK ship register has limited public accessibility and does not maintain a searchable online database. Specific vessel information can be obtained by formally requesting a Transcript of Registry.

• FQA Register - The Fixed Quota Allocation (FQA) Register is an online UK government tool that lists information on UK fishing vessel licences and their owners. You can search by license number, vessel name or person name.

People Search

• 192.com - 192 offers people search functionalities based on electoral roll data.

• UKPhonebook - Identify phone numbers and addresses based on name search (paid credits required).

• BritishPhoneBook - Find information such as phone number and address by inserting name and location optionally (appears outdated).

• BritishYellowPages - Search by Business name or category (appears outdated).

• UKFriendsReunited - Find personal information by searching educational details. Search Primary, Middle or Secondary Schools, Colleges, or Universities.

• FreeBMD - A project managed by Free UK Genealogy, a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, that maintains a searchable copy of civil registration records for births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales, currently containing 298,510,339 distinct records (404,885,987 total records).

• FreeCEN - A project managed by Free UK Geneology, a Charitable Incorportated Organisation, that maintains searchable census data from 50,000,000 individuals between 1841 and 1891.

• FreeREG - A project managed by Free UK Geneology, a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, that maintains 62,000,000 records from parish registers

• FindmyPast - Obtain census data, death, marriage and birth records, as well as parish, military and travel records (free account setup required).

• GenesReunited UK

• Births, Marriages & Deaths - GenesReunited

• Find a Postcode - Parcel Force

• UK Telephone Directory, Person Search & Company Information - UKPhoneBook

• (Paid) Pipl - Online People Search

• Who Called UK

• Public Records Search UK

• Scotland:

  • Explore your Scottish heritage - Scotland’s People

  • Births, deaths and marriages - National Archive Scotland

  • Scotland’s People - FamilySearch

  • Search for your Scottish Ancestors - ScottishIndexes

  • Mental Health Records Search - ScottishIndexes

• Northern Ireland:

  • Search Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

  • Irish Genealogy

  • People Search - nidirect

  • Court Lists Online - Northern Ireland

  • Ireland and North-Ireland Telefone Directory

• Wales:

  • People’s Collection Wales

  • Wales Family Search - FamilySearch

  • Register of Social Care Workers in Wales

  • North Wales Births, Marriages & Deaths

  • (Guide) Researching your Welsh heritage

Media Outlets

• Royal United Services Institute - RUSI is one of the world’s oldest and one of the UK’s most prominent think tanks in the area of defence and security.

• British News Paper Archive - Explore over 100,000,000 digitised news paper sources starting in 1700.

• BBC - Comprehensive UK and international news coverage from the BBC, including politics, business, and breaking news.

• Sky News - Digital news service offering live updates, video reporting, and UK-focused current affairs coverage.

• Channel 4 - UK and world news coverage with video reporting, investigations, and daily explainers.

• GB News - News, opinion and analysis on the right side of the political spectrum

• Economist - Influential weekly publication offering in-depth analysis of economics, business, and international affairs.

• City AM - London-based free business newspaper focused on finance, markets, and the UK business community.

• Business Insider UK - Digital business news site reporting on companies, technology, finance, and workplace trends.

• The Rest is Politics - Online show that covers the latest news in Westminster, hosted by former Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy Alastair Campbell and Cabinet Minister Rory Stewart

• Yahoo Finance UK - Find information about UK stocks, ticker symbols and financial updates.

• The Sun - Popular national tabloid known for celebrity news, sport coverage, and mass-market appeal across the United Kingdom.

• Daily Mail - Widely read national newspaper published by DMG Media, combining news, opinion, lifestyle, and investigative reporting.

• Daily Mirror - National tabloid with a centre-left editorial stance, focusing on politics, social issues, sport, and human-interest stories.

• The Times - Leading British daily newspaper published by News UK, offering in-depth reporting on politics, business, and public affairs.

• The Sunday Times - Influential Sunday newspaper recognised for investigations, long-form journalism, business rankings, and analysis.

• The Telegraph- National daily newspaper with a strong focus on politics, economics, opinion columns, and international reporting.

• The Guardian- Internationally respected UK newspaper known for investigative journalism, progressive commentary, and global coverage.

• The Observer - UK Sunday newspaper known for long-form reporting, politics, culture, and analysis.

• The Independent- Digital-only national news outlet providing UK and international coverage, commentary, and investigative reporting.

• Newsletter- (or Belfast News Letter), established in 1737, is one of the world’s oldest English-language daily newspaper still in publication.

• Belfast Telegraph-Founded in 1870 and based in Belfast, it is known for its unionist, yet largely neutral, political stance, providing in-depth coverage of local, political, and sports news with a digital-first focus.

• HM Coastguard - Updates and news relating to the UK coastguard.

• RAF News - Updates on military exercises and non-operational airforce movements.

• Scotland:

  • The Herald - The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783. The Herald is the longest running national newspaper, formerly known as the Glasgow Herald.

  • The Scotsman- Scottish newspaper and website, headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland.

  • Edinburgh News- A daily newspaper and website based in Edinburgh, Scotland, first published in 1873.

• Wales:

  • BBC Cymru Wales (BBC Wales) – Major public broadcaster producing TV, radio, and online news about Wales.

  • S4C – Welsh-language public TV channel broadcasting news, culture, and entertainment entirely in Welsh.

  • Western Mail – Main national newspaper of Wales (English language).

  • The National (Wales) – National newspaper focused on Welsh politics and identity.

  • WalesOnline – One of the most widely visited Welsh news websites.

• Northern Ireland:

  • The Irish News- A daily newspaper headquartered in Belfast, focused on covering news across Northern Ireland. It is one of the region’s leading daily newspapers.

  • BelfastLive- An online daily news publication covering local sports, entertainment and breaking news in the Belfast and Northern Ireland area.
    

Investigative Reporting Organizations

(Members of Global Investigative Journalism Network)

• Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) - The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is a charity that champions critical, in-depth reporting and the defence of the public interest.

• Finance Uncovered - Finance Uncovered has been established with the goal of increasing the quantity and quality of investigative journalism on illicit financial flows.

• openDemocracy - Is an independent global media organization.

• The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is an independent not-for-profit organisation.

• The Gecko Project - Is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the role of land use in some of the most pressing global challenges: climate change, deforestation, the collapse of biodiversity, food security, and the rights of marginalised communities.

• The Bristol Cable - The Bristol Cable is redefining local journalism through challenging multimedia, community action and cooperative ownership.

• Birmingham City University School of Media - Birmingham City University School of Media has a global reputation for excellence in data journalism and reporting using new technologies.

• The Centre for Climate Reporting - Is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization that holds accountable the many actors obstructing the world’s transition to a low-carbon economy.

• Scotland:

  • The Ferret is Scotland’s investigative journalism platform. A nonprofit cooperative owned by its readers and writers, the outlet investigates issues that impact the lives of people across Scotland, the UK and beyond.

• Northern Ireland:

  • Ulster University School of Communication and Media has a 25-year record of educating reporters with an emphasis on hard news and investigation.

WHOIS

• Registration Data Access Protocol - The successor to WHOIS UK provides information about internet resources (domain names, AS, and IP addresses).

• Nominet UK - Use the Domain Lookup tool to access information about existing UK domains.

• EuroDNS UK - Domain Lookup

Other Toolkits and Resources

• (Guide) Government & Associated Open Data Sources in the UK

• UK Start Me - A UK focussed Start.me page with various resources including business, government, maps, crime, people search, vehicle information and patents.

• UK OSINT Community - A UK-focused OSINT non-profit that frequently posts resources, guides and webinars. They frequently organise offline events with speakers from across the sector.

• OCCRP ID - a service that helps investigations and research by sharing the most useful public records. Filter by country, including the UK.

• Paul Pogoda Github - A useful Github page with useful UK OSINT tools, including public records, open data, land registers, business, people search and WHOIS.

• Worldwide OSINT Tool Map - UK Phonebooks, cadastral maps, vehicle numbers databases, business registries, passengers lists, court records and much more.

Miscellaneous

• UK Parliament - Watch debates and committee hearings.

• Open Fact Book - Overview of UK geography, people, government, and economy (a crowd sourced alternative to the recently retired CIA World Factbook).

• Wikileaks UK

• Transparency International UK

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Entry #45 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• Zanzibar Statistical Information Service

• OpenAfrica Data - Zanzibar

• Office of the Chief Government Statistician Zanzibar

• RCMRD Open Data Zanzibar

• World Bank Data - Zanzibar

• Tanzania-Zanzibar ProBlue Data Portal

• The National Bureau of Statistics (Tanzania)

• Ministry of Finance Zanzibar

• Ikulu Zanzibar – The official website of the President’s Office (State House) of Zanzibar.

• Zanzibar Revenue Authority

• Zanzibar Investment Promotion Authority

• Government links directory

• Business and Property Registration Agency

• People’s Bank of Zanzibar

• Agricultural Data - Zanzibar

• Zanzibar Economy, Demography, Poverty and Education Data

• Zanzibar Development Vision 2050

• National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania – Statistical Business Register Report

Company Registries

• List of 833 Registered Companies in Zanzibar, Tanzania

• Search Tanzanian Companies - InfoClipper

• National Commercial Directory (NCD) - Businesses in Zanzibar

• Open Sanctions Tanzania (Data Includes Zanzibar)

• OpenCorporates - Tanzania

• Zanzibar Business Directory

• Women owned business directory for Zanzibar

• Zanzibar business directory - expat.com

• Zanzibar International Trade Fair

  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zanzibaritf/?hl=en

• Tanzania Trade Development Authority

• Business regulations portal

• Business registration guide

• List of Business, Professionals & Companies in Zanzibar

• B2B leads in Zanzibar

Land & Property Records

• Ministry of Lands Zanzibar

• Land lease & property tax

• Land use and land cover data changes in Indian Ocean Islands: Case study of Unguja in Zanzibar Island

• Zanzibar properties Facebook Group

Geospatial Data and Maps

• National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania

• Geospatial profile

• Zanzibar geodata

• Old Maps of Zanzibar

• Zanzibar North: maps and data

• East View Geospatial - Tanzania

Flight & Vessel Tracking

• Zanzibar Ports Corporation

• ZanPermits (Foreign Travel Permit System) - ZanPermits, also referred to as

  Zan Vibali, is an online system used in Zanzibar (Tanzania) for managing foreign travel permits.

• VesselFinder - Zanzibar

• Port of Zanzibar - CrusingEarth

• Zanzibar Airport

• FlightRadar24 - Zanzibar

People Search

• Facebook groups (e.g. Zanzibar residents)

• Commonly used platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), WhatsApp.

• Women and men in Zanzibar: Facts and Figures

• Tanzania Civil Registration - Tanzania

• List of People Living in Tanzania - LocateFamily

• Find People in Tanzania - Guide

• Zoominfo - Zanzibar

• Telephone numbers in Tanzania

• TZ Mobile Number Lookup

• Open Sanctions Tanzania (Data Includes Zanzibar)

• OCCRP Aleph

• Telephone Directories Tanzania

• Google Dorking Examples

  • site:go.tz “zanzibar”

    site:go.tz “unguja”

    site:go.tz “zanzibar” filetype:pdf

    site:go.tz intitle:”zanzibar” inurl:report

    site:go.tz “unguja” OR “pemba” filetype:xls OR filetype:xlsx

    site:go.tz “budget” “zanzibar” filetype:pdf

    site:go.tz “tender” “zanzibar”

    site:go.tz “company” “zanzibar” filetype:pdf

    site:tz “business registration” “zanzibar”

    “zanzibar” “limited” filetype:pdf

    site:bpra.go.tz “zanzibar”

    site:tantrade.go.tz “zanzibar”

Media Outlets

Government Media

• Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation

  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zbc_zanzibar/

  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@zbczanzibar7210

  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zbcznz/

• Zanzibar Leo

Non-Governmental Media

• Coconut FM

• Tanzania Media Women’s Association - Zanzibar

• List of newspapers in Tanzania - Wikipedia

Note: Most media platforms operating in Zanzibar also cover mainland Tanzania.

Other Toolkits & Resources

• OSINT Toolkit for Tanzania

Miscellaneous

• Zanzibar Electricity Corporation

• Zanzibar Association of Tourism Investors

• Language and education institutions:

  • Zanzibar Open Institute

  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoi_institute/

  • State University of Zanzibar

• The Zanzibar Tourist Guide – https://www.youtube.com/@thezanzibarguide

Notes

• Zanzibar consists of two main islands:

  • Unguja (commonly referred to as Zanzibar): Unguja is more urbanized and economically active than Pemba.

  • Pemba: Pemba is approximately a 4-hour journey from Unguja.

• Mainland Tanzania is often informally referred to as “Bongo.”

• Common abbreviations:

  • Zanzibar → ZNZ

  • Tanzania → TZ

• Driving license note:

  • A Mainland Tanzania license is not valid in Zanzibar

  • A Zanzibar license is valid in Mainland Tanzania

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Entry #44 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• National Open Data Portal

• Official Statistics Open Data Portal

• Geoportal.lt — Spatial / Geographic Open Data

• Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA) — Research Data

• World Bank Data

• Humanitarian Data Exchange - Lithuania

• Epaveldas.lt is Lithuania’s largest digital heritage platform, run by the National Library, offering books, audio, maps, and other cultural materials.

• Electronic Archive Information System - A national platform providing online access to digitised Lithuanian archival records.

• Ibiblioteka.lt - Lithuania’s digital library system offering millions of bibliographic records from over 1,000 libraries.

• Infolex - A Lithuanian legal database with laws, court updates, and expert commentary.

• Seimas Legal Acts Database - The official database of Lithuanian state and municipal legal acts and draft laws.

• Open Data Page of the Electoral Commission – A platform providing datasets on elections, including results, constituencies, candidates, campaign finances, and related data.

• Vilnius Open Data – A municipal platform providing datasets on Vilnius’ urban development, governance, and residents.

• Karštos Pėdos – A transparency tool visualising links between politicians, civil servants, businesses, and public finances.

• Demographics Lithuania - Esri Demographics

• Open Science Observatory - Lithuania

• UNData Lithuania

• Census.gov Data Lithuania

Business Registries and Information

• The European e-Justice Portal provides pointers to the official business register for each EU country — including Lithuania’s Register of Legal Entities — and explains how to request extracts or certified data.

• Register of Legal Entities (Juridiškų asmenų registras) - This is the official national business registry maintained by the State Enterprise Centre of Registers (Registrų centras).

• JARS.LT – Company search covering Lithuanian (and Estonian) registries with data like registration code, address, status, financials, employee counts, etc.

• Karštos Pėdos is a transparency tool that visualises the interconnections of politicians, civil servants, businesses, and public finances. It is managed by two NGOs: Siena.lt and Media4Change.

• Rekvizitai.lt – A directory of Lithuanian companies, searchable by name, category, city, etc. (useful for basic lookup).

• CR.LT – A private database of Lithuanian companies with directors, contacts, ratings, and other business information.

• The Tax Inspectorate holds general information about taxpayers, companies, political organisations, and tax statistics. Although much of this data is not publicly accessible a selection is provided in open data format. The platform is managed by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania.

• LurSoft.li - Lithuanian company search

• HitHorizons - Search companies registered in Lithuania

• Info.lt - Lithuania Yellow Pages

• (Guide) How You Can Check up on a Lithuanian Company

• Profdir - Businesses in Lithuania

• 1588 Yellow Pages - This is a database of companies, including contact information such as address, and website address. Can be searched by company name, or product and service type.

• Open Sanctions Lithuania - A list of entities whose property is legally owned or controlled by a sanctioned entity.

• InfoBel - Lithuania Local Business Directory

• Data on concluded public procurement contracts (contracting organization, supplier, contract dates, amounts, description, etc.)

• State Social Insurance Fund data that includes information about companies, the wages they pay, the number of employees, and other relevant details.

• Nasdaq Baltic - Stock

People Search

• PINREG or Private Interest Registry is a civil servants’ declarations database that provides details on family connections, loans, and other relevant information on individuals who work in official state positions. The database is managed by The Supreme Commission of Official Ethics and is available only in Lithuanian.

• This government list shows individuals officially sought by law enforcement and unidentified bodies. Searches typically require a name or ID code and are legal public safety tools.

• Lithuanian archives systems — state and regional archives for historical documents including censuses, civil records, etc.

• FamilySearch - historical records

• LitvakSIG is the primary internet resource for Lithuanian-Jewish (Litvak) genealogy research worldwide.

• Surname Search Lithuania - Family history research

• Adreßbuch baltischer Landwirthe - Address book of Baltic farmers. Data is organized by product types, with an index of the name of the goods. 1899.

• LocatFamily - List of people living in Lithuania

• Interpol Wanted List

• OCCRP Aleph Platform

• Open Sanctions Lithuania - A list of entities whose property is legally owned or controlled by a sanctioned entity.

• Lithuanian Family History

Land, Maps, and Property Records

• Search for the addresses in the Address Register

• Search of real estate property value (Taxable value)

• Search of real estate property value (Average market value)

• Search of powers of attorneys issued for legal entities and individuals

• LocatFamily - List of people living in Lithuania

• Old maps of Lithuania

• Lithuanian Maps

• Geoportal.lt
  

Vehicle Information and Flight & Vessel Tracking

• Search for vehicle information

• Search for information by owner declaration code (SDK)

• Flightradar24

• FlightAware

• Register of civil aircrafts in Lithuania

• ADSBExchange - Flight Info

• MarineTraffic

• VesselFinder

• EU Search Vessel Registry by Country

Courts

• lithuanian court e-services portal

• Courts And Cases Lithuania

• Open Courts

• Court Statistics

Media Landscape

National and local news

• lrt.lt/en/news-in-english – the English language site of the Lrt.lt, the online service of Lithuania’s public broadcaster that covers the latest news.

  • Lithuanian National Radio and Television - Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) is the country’s official public service broadcaster and the main example of state-funded media in Lithuania.

• en.delfi.lt – the tabloid news site that covers major events in Lithuania and offers some analysis of politics and economy but focuses on gossip and celebrities.

• www.lrytas.lt/english – the English section of the online version of the tabloid print daily Lietuvos rytas. The online publication mostly covers gossip and celebrities, but its English section does offer some news and analysis.

• bns.lt/en – the site of the Lithuanian section of the pan-Baltic news agency Baltic News Service. The team behind it offers domestic and international news.

• elta.lt/en – the site of ELTA, the only national news agency that offers the latest news daily. The English section is available to subscribers only.

• nara.lt/en – the site run by the collective of Lithuanian journalists who cover the social and cultural life in Lithuania and also offer a wide range of human interest stories from the whole world.

• lithuaniatribune.com – the independent news blog dedicated to the Lithuanian diaspora and foreign audience with business and diplomatic ties in Lithuania.

• facebook.com/LivingInLithuaniaPodcast – the independent news blog dedicated to the Lithuanian diaspora and foreign audiences with business and diplomatic ties in Lithuania.

Regional news outlets

• baltictimes.com/news_lithuania – the site of the last remaining English language generalist newspaper The Baltic Times. It covers the latest political, economic, business, and cultural events in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Some articles can be accessed free of charge, but the full version is available only to subscribers.

• balticsentinel.eu – the defense news site focusing on NATO’s Northeast. It combines interviews, historical commentary, and policy analysis centered around the Baltic defense sector with news and photo reports from the Russia-Ukraine frontline.

• bnn-news.com/category/baltics/lithuania – a regional news source that offers news from Estonia and analysis of the Baltic economy, business, and political events.

• en.rebaltica.lv – the English site of the non-profit organisation Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica. It focuses first and foremost on Latvia but covers the entire Baltic region. The team behind it produces in-depth investigations covering a wide array of topics, such as corruption, crime, finances, entrepreneurship, health, human rights, and disinformation.

• emerging-europe.com/tag/lithuania – the news site of the Emerging Europe Alliance for Business Services, Innovation, and Technology. The organisation is an international lobby of businesses, associations, local and national governments, NGOs, and individuals representing former Soviet Bloc countries. The team behind the site offers reports and interviews and covers the important events in the region.

• balticworlds.com/tags/lithuania – the online version of the Stockholm-based quarterly magazine Baltic Worlds. The magazine focuses on the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe and contains peer-reviewed analytical texts, features, and interviews by professional freelance writers.

• neweasterneurope.eu/tag/lithuania – the online version of the Warsaw-based bi-monthly print magazine New Eastern Europe that focuses on Central and Eastern European affairs and sometimes publishes exclusive reports or analyses on the Baltic States. Some of the online content is free of charge, but most of the texts are available only to subscribers.

• upnorth.eu/category/news/lithuania – the web magazine focusing on Northern Europe, that covers politics, foreign policy, music, art, design, architecture, and culture and offers its audience podcasts and videos.

Procurement Data

• Lithuania Tenders

• TendersInfo Lithuania

• E-Public Procurement Info

• Procurements

• Procurements Archive

Other Toolkits and Resources

• Fixers Press Lithuania

• Paulpogoda - OSINT Tools Lithuania Github

Miscellaneous

• Transparency International Lithuania

• Map of Corruption in Lithuania

• Lithuania Country Risk Report - Corruption

• Wikileaks Lithuania

• Siena (Lithuania) is Lithuania’s first nonprofit organization dedicated entirely to investigative cross-border reporting.

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Entry #43 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• IBGE – Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics

• Central Bank of Brazil

• Ministry of Finance

• Brazil Open Data Portal

• Federal Transparency Portal

• Brazilian Freedom of Information Act (LAI) - Brazil has a law called Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI) (Law No. 12.527/2011). It gives anyone, Brazilian citizens or foreigners, the right to request access to public government information. Requests can be made through the Transparency Portal. Under “Ombudsman and Access to Information” and click “Place Order.” Then use the tab labeled “Access to Information – LAI.”

• Office of the Comptroller General (CGU)

• Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA)

• World Bank – Brazil

• IMF – Brazil

• ECLAC – Brazil

• OECD Data – Brazil

• OAS – Brazil

• Stip Compass - Brazil Open Data Portals

• Brazil’s Open Budget Transparency Portal

• (Article) Open Government Data Portals Analysis: The Brazilian Case

• World Health Organization - Brazil

• Comex Stat - Official system to extract statistics on Brazilian foreign trade in goods.

• Humanitarian Dara Exchange - Brazil

• UN Directory of Open Registries - Brazil

• Open Data Brazil
  

Business Registries

Corporate Registries

• Receita Federal – CNPJ Registry

• SINTEGRA – State Taxpayer Registry

• State Commercial Boards - States maintain their own commercial registries (“junta comercial”) which provide information about companies.

  • São Paulo (JUCESP) – Official business search & services

  • Rio de Janeiro (JUCERJA)

  • Minas Gerais (JUCEMG)

  • Espírito Santo (JUCEES)

  • Acre (JUCEAC)

  • Amazonas (JUCEA)

  • Roraima (JUCERR)

  • Tocantins (JUCETINS)

• The CVM (Securities and Exchange Commission) website provides records and information about companies that issue shares on the stock exchange. On the website, it is possible to find information about publicly traded companies, including their records, financial statements, market announcements, relevant facts, and other documents related to their activities in the capital market.

• Banking accounts registry - It provides information of public interest, not subject to secrecy, made available in open format by financial institutions and other institutions authorized to operate by the Central Bank.

• Search through CNPJ number - Issuance of the Proof of Registration and Registration Status of Legal Entities over the Internet in line with the RFB Normative Instruction No. 2,119, of December 06, 2022.

• Check CPF and CNPJ - Vero.stratir

  
  

Government Contracts

• Federal Procurement Portal

• Federal Transparency Contracts Database
  

Private Databases

• OpenCorporates – Brazil

• Infobel – Business Directory

• Orbis (Bureau van Dijk)

• Aleph OCCRP

• ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database - Brazil

• Open Sanctions Brazil - Contains 146,497 entities connected with Brazil. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• List of Companies Brazil - Wikipedia

• Search Largest Private Companies in Brazil

• Brazil Companies Database - Ready

• List of Companies in Brazil - Powrbot

Land, Property & Geospatial Intelligence

• INCRA – Rural Land Registry

• CAR – Rural Environmental Registry

• IBAMA – Environmental Enforcement

• INPE – National Space Research Institute

• Cadastro Imobiliário Brasileiro (CIB)

• Diário Registral

• Old maps of Brazil

• Zoom Earth Brazil

• Brazil Weather Radar

People Search & Civil Registry

• Birth Registry - In the states of São Paulo and Pernambuco, it is possible to inquire about the registry office where a person is registered based on their name. After this inquiry, it is possible to request a duplicate copy of the document from the registry office. For the other states, it is only possible to request a duplicate copy of the birth register. In these cases, however, it is necessary to provide various details about the person to be queried, including the registry office where the registration was performed.

• Death Registry - The free inquiry will provide information on whether the queried name appears in the death records. To find out in which registry office the death was registered, as well as to obtain a copy of the death certificate, payment for the services is required.

• Marriage Registry - Name search is only available for the states of São Paulo and Pernambuco.

• CPF Tax ID Lookup

• Superior Electoral Court (TSE)

• TSE Open Data - Search information about people involved in Brazilian elections, subject to privacy and electoral data policies.

• Brazil White Pages

• FamilySearch Brazil Genealogy

• Interpol Red Notices

• Aleph OCCRP

• ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database - Brazil

• Open Sanctions Brazil - Contains 146,497 entities connected with Brazil. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• World Bank Sanctions & Debarment Lists

• People Search Brazil - InfoTracer

• Search Verified People by Job Title, Industry & Region - ZoomInfo

• Brazil Genealogy & Brazil Family History Resources

• People Search - SocialCatfish
  

Aviation Data

• Aircraft Registry - Registro Aeronáutico Brasileiro (RAB)

• Scheduled Airline Flights - A Brazilian government tool for viewing scheduled flight plans maintained by ANAC (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil)

• flightsbr is an R package designed to facilitate the download of comprehensive flight and airport data from Brazil’s Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC).

• Brazilian Flights Dataset

• FlightAware / FlightRadar24 - Commercial flight tracking services that provide near real-time flight positions, delays, and historical flight routes.

Courts, Litigation, and Oversight

• Information on proceedings initiated in the scope of the Federal Justice. To inquire about proceedings within state jurisdictions (“State Court System”), please visit the website of each state as follows: "tj[state abbreviation].jus.br." For example: https://www.tjsp.jus.br/Processos (for São Paulo); https://www.tjrj.jus.br/ (for Rio de Janeiro).

• National Council of Justice

• Supreme Federal Court (STF)

• Superior Court of Justice

• Federal Prosecutor’s Office

• Federal Court of Accounts

• Electoral Court (Campaign Finance & Electoral Abuse)

• National Congress Ethics & Inquiry Commissions

• Brazilian Federal Senate’s website

• National Electronic Judicial Gazette, an official judicial publication system used by the Brazilian judiciary to publish and communicate judicial acts and procedural notices digitally. Access to only citizens and companies in Brazil.

• Federal Executive Acts – Diário Oficial da União (DOU)

• Brazilian Federal Legislation

Electoral Data

• DivulgaCandContas (short for Divulgação de Candidaturas e Contas Eleitorais) is a public, free online platform where you can:

  • see who is officially running for political office,

  • view their campaign finance data (money raised and spent),

  • check recorded donors and expenditures,

  • and examine details about each candidate’s electoral registration and finances.

• General electoral data

Crime, Security & Organized Crime

Law Enforcement

• Ministry of Justice & Public Security

• Federal Police

• Federal Highway Police

• National Prison Department

Security Analysis & Datasets

• Brazilian Forum on Public Safety

• Brazilian Public Security Yearbook

• UNODC Brazil

• InSight Crime Brazil

• Global Organized Crime Index

• OSAC Brazil Security Reports

• Financial Intelligence Unit (COAF – AML Monitoring)

• OpenSanctions – Politically Exposed Persons & Corruption Lists

• OFAC Sanctions Monitoring

• World Bank Sanctions & Debarment Lists

• Global Financial Integrity – Illicit Financial Flows Research

• Aleph OCCRP

• ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database - Brazil

PCC & Comando Vermelho OSINT Monitoring

• Primeiro Comando da Capital - Wikipedia

• InSight Crime - PCC

• InSight Crime - Red Command (Comando Vermelho)

Violence & Conflict Tracking

• ACLED Brazil Conflict Dataset

• ACLED Brazil HDX Data

• GDELT Conflict Dashboard

• Fogo Cruzado Armed Violence Tracker

Strategic Organized Crime Research

• Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• UNDP Organized Crime Studies

Human Rights & Dictatorship Archives

Military Dictatorship Documentation (1964–1985)

• National Truth Commission

• National Archives – Memórias Reveladas

• Political Deaths & Disappearances Commission

NGOs & Monitoring

• Conectas Human Rights

• Justiça Global

• Amnesty International Brazil

• Human Rights Watch Brazil

• Associação Fiquem Sabendo - Is a nonprofit independent organization specializing in the freedom of access to information in Brazil.

• Repórter Brasil - Is a nonprofit organization founded by journalists, social scientists and educators with the aim of bringing attention and action to the violation of fundamental rights of people and workers in Brazil.

Illegal Mining & Amazon Criminal Economy OSINT

Satellite Monitoring

• TerraBrasilis – Deforestation Monitoring

• MapBiomas Alerta

• MapBiomas Mining Database

• Imazon Deforestation Research

• MAAP Amazon Monitoring

Indigenous & Environmental Risk

• Instituto Socioambiental

• Indigenous Peoples in Brazil Database

• ISA Socio-Environmental Mapping

Amazon Criminal Route Research

• RAISG Amazon Geoportal

• UNODC Amazon Basin Illicit Economy Report

Media Ecosystems – Bolsonaro vs Lula

Conservative Ecosystem

• Jovem Pan

• Gazeta do Povo

• Revista Oeste

• Brasil Paralelo

Left-Leaning Ecosystem

• Brasil 247

• CartaCapital

• Agência Pública

• The Intercept Brasil

Neutral / Mainstream Cross-Verification

• Globo / G1

• Folha de São Paulo

• Estadão

• UOL

Investigative Journalism & Corruption Exposure Sources

• Agência Pública – Corruption Investigations

• Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo (ABRAJI) - The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo, or ABRAJI) is one of the world’s leading associations of investigative reporters.

• The Intercept Brasil – Political & Judicial Leaks

• UOL Investigative Reporting

• Folha de São Paulo Investigative Unit

• Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) – Governance & Corruption Research

• Igarapé Institute – Political Economy & Criminal Governance

• Brazilian Forum on Public Safety – State Capture & Crime Nexus

• Repórter Brasil is a Brazilian nonprofit organization focused on investigative journalism, human rights, and socio-environmental issues.

• ICL Notícias

Fact-Checking & Disinformation

• Aos Fatos

• Agência Lupa

• AFP Factual Brazil

Dark Web & Illicit Monitoring (Legal OSINT)

• Ahmia TOR Search

• Dark.fail

• OnionSearchEngine

• Reddit Deep Web Monitoring

Other Toolkits

• OSINT Brazuca: Brazilian Cyber Investigation Toolkit (Link2)

• OSINT-Tools-Brazil - Github

Miscellaneous

• Transparency International Brazil

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If we’ve missed any good sources, just drop us a comment or send an email to abawer@unishka.com — we’ll make sure to add them to the toolkit!

This post is part of UNISHKA Research Service’s ongoing OSINT series. If you’re interested in learning more, subscribe to our Substack and follow us on social media to stay in the loop. You can also visit our website to explore all the toolkits we’ve created so far: www.unishka.com/osint-world-series.

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Entry #42 OSINT World Series

Open Data Portals

• Azerbaijan Open Data Portal (Açıq Məlumatlar Portalı) - Central national portal consolidating open datasets published by public institutions in standardized formats.

• Open Data Portal by Ministry of Digital Development and Transport

• Publik Data Portal (Agency Data Portal)

• State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan

• Dateno Azerbaijan Data Catalog Listings

• World Bank Data - Azerbaijan

• EU4Environment – Water and Data works to support the development of an online entry point for access to data and information on water and the environment in Azerbaijan.

• Humanitaria Exchange Data - Azerbaijan

• World Health Organization - Azerbaijan

• The Ministry of Energy Open Data - Azerbaijan

• The State Statistical Committee - Azerbaijan

• Azerbaijan Statistical Information Service

• ADB Data Library - Azerbaijan

• DXR.az, which is the official Electronic Services Portal (Dövlət Xidmətləri Portalı) of Azerbaijan. It acts as a central unified information portal about public (state) services and government bodies.

• Azerbaijan Newspaper Archives

• General Information on Azerbaijan - History, people, art, etc.

Business Registries

• State registry information of commercial entities

• Online search for Azerbaijani companies - infoproff

• InfoClipper - Azerbaijan

• (Guide) How to check a company from Azerbaijan?

• Official Polish government sanctions list published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration (MSWiA). Contains some Azerbaijan-related entities.

• JobSearch Azerbaijan hosts job vacancy listings from a wide range of companies operating in Azerbaijan.

• List of Companies of Azerbaijan - Wikipedia

• Yellow Pages Azerbaijan

• Kompra KZ is a paid Kazakhstan-based platform that supports checks on Azerbaijani entities. Promo code POGODA gives 2,500 KZT (≈5 checks). (Source: paulpogoda Github)

• List of Companies in Azerbaijan - PowrBot

• List of consulting firms in Baku, Azerbaijan - consultingcase101

• Open Sanctions Azerbaijan - Contains 1,012 entities connected with Azerbaijan. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• OCCRP Aleph - The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

• Most searched Azerbaijani business profiles - InfoClipper

• Yellow Pages Azerbaijan - Russian Information Network

• ZoomInfo Azerbaijan - Search for people and companies

• ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database Azerbaijan

• Search for taxpayer database - Azerbaijan

• Comtur Focus is a paid Russian-language business information and counterparty-check service developed by SKB Kontur, widely used in Russia and CIS countries for corporate risk, compliance, and due-diligence research. (Paid)

People Search

• FamilySearch – Azerbaijan Genealogy & Records

• Azerbaijan Genealogical Records

• MyHeritage – Azerbaijan Genealogy & Vital Records – Genealogical collections that may contain personal and family records.

• Open Sanctions Azerbaijan - Contains 1,012 entities connected with Azerbaijan. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

• OCCRP Aleph - The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

• RealPeopleSearch – Azerbaijan Find People – People search engine with lookup by name, phone, email, etc.

• Infinitbook – People Search Azerbaijan – Search by name, date of birth, address, workplace, school, etc.

• Whosenumber.info – Azerbaijan Phone Number Lookup

• Digital Report Azerbaijan - This page contains all the data, insights, and trends you need to help you understand how people in Azerbaijan use digital devices, online platforms, and connected services in 2025.

• Joshua Project - Azerbaijan People Groups

• Make Azerbaijani Friends - dating & friend making platform

• Azerbaijan Dating - Android App

• ZoomInfo Azerbaijan - Search for people and companies

• Phone Book of the World - Azerbaijan

• OSINT Industries - Search for numbers and emails. (free for confirmed journalists)