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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
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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