Selective Broadcast during asynchronous pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation: a GSS capability for Indonesian culture

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. The paper presents the concept of Selective Broadcast which was originally defined as the delivery of a packet to a specified subset of possible destinations (D.W. Wall, 1982), but in the 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 (G.H. Hofstede, 1980; 1991), and high context (E.T. Hall, 1976; E.T. Hall and M.H. Hall, 1990). Selective Broadcast is discussed with respect to meetings, group memory, culture and practical applications.