Argumentative Essay On Information Technology

Information Technology has not taken off in Belize like it should have. Belize seems to be stuck in the past when it comes to technology. Because we are a small third world country, our leaders think that we cannot make changes in the world, and we should leave innovation to first world countries; however, that is not true; we just need to take a step in the right direction. I truly believe that education is the mother of innovation, and being educated in information technology will help me to bring about the innovation that Belize so desperately needs. Belize is, after all, the one place that I hold dear, and it is about time we start to step out of the stone age and into the technological era.
A major problem in Belize that is apparent in majority of the small businesses is the use of manual business processes. Many restaurants in Belize still use a sales orders book to total customers’ bill instead of using an information system that is able to separate different orders by customer name or table number, calculate totals, and print bills and receipts. This often leads to inaccurate bills because of miscalculated totals, giving customers someone else’s bill, and confusion due to bad penmanship. Small grocery stores often only use a calculator to calculate customers’ total, and often do not return a receipt to customers, and because of this customers do not know if they were over or undercharged. Another area where technology will be greatly useful and beneficial