Abstract
Research about Group Support Systems and the design of these technologies uses western culture as a point of reference. While the research reveals promising results on the effectiveness of these technologies, the technologies may be less effective when applied directly to different cultures or cross-cultural situations where there may be different support requirements. This paper presents the concept of Selective Broadcast which was originally defined as the delivery of a packet to a specified subset of possible destinations [22], but in this paper refers to the distribution of information to specified members of a communication group. It is potentially one of the most significant requirements of technological support for groups engaged in the pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation in Indonesia. Indonesian culture has relatively high power distance, low individualism, and weak uncertainty avoidance [12, 13], and high context [10, 11]. Selective Broadcast is discussed with respect to meetings, group memory, culture and practical applications.