Application service provider (ASP) featuring software for use as a complement to user created and updated online encyclopedias and user created and updated encyclopedia articles that enables global users to organize knowledge about the world spatially, categorically, and temporally and provides an infrastructure that enables narrative and visualization as a means of communicating important issues so any student, teacher, or other individual can convey stories arranged geographically, categorically, and by time to a global audience, rendering a curated, consistently accumulating global body of knowledge about global dynamics over the course of history; Providing temporary use of non-downloadable cloud-based software for use as a complement to user created and updated online encyclopedias and user created and updated encyclopedia articles that enables global users to organize knowledge about the world spatially, categorically, and temporally and provides an infrastructure that enables narrative and visualization as a means of communicating important issues so any student, teacher, or other individual can convey stories arranged geographically, categorically, and by time to a global audience, rendering a curated, consistently accumulating global body of knowledge about global dynamics over the course of history