This research aims to create a global community of support for Portuguese-learning Timorese students by proposing a community-building design that utilize the available ICT infrastructure. The proposed design can provide the Timorese students more opportunities to practice Portuguese and supported by Portuguese speakers from around the world.
Based on the result of field research in Timor-Leste, the author proposed a design to create a global community of support using digital storytelling method and a website as the community platform. To implement this design, the author held a Portuguese digital storytelling project for Timorese students and created a website where the digital stories made by the students are viewable around the world and viewers can participate by giving comments on it or submitting their own digital stories. Through this project, the proposed design revealed the success parts which are the production of digital stories by Timorese students and the creation of communication platform, and yet to be improved-parts for future works which are delivering the feedback to Timorese students and maintaining the sustainability of the project by the local stakeholders.
Through this research, the first step in building a communication bridge between the Timorese students learning Portuguese and the Portuguese-speakers around the world has been taken. In the future, this community-building design may be a model to encourage students in learning a language, along with promoting global community cooperation in supporting language learning worldwide.

修士学位論文. 2010年度メディアデザイン学 第66号