In the Dominican Republic the 39% of entrepreneurs and MSMEs they use the cell phone to carry out the management of the business.
This is a fairly high figure compared to other Latin American countries, since in Colombia it is 27.5%; in Costa Rica and Panama 29%; in Mexico 37%; in Argentina 46.3% and in Peru 59.1%, according to data compiled by Alegra.com, an accounting, management and electronic invoicing platform for MSMEs.
Nowadays the cell phone, especially the smart ones, are becoming an increasingly efficient business tool. Thanks to cloud storage, mobile devices with advanced tools and high processing speeds, taking the business management from the cell phone is now a reality.
And it is that technology allows the use of necessary tools to promote business growth and the cell phone has become an increasingly frequent option.
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In the Dominican Republic, 46.1% of households have Internet service and the percentage of households with access to network service increases depending on the socioeconomic groups, being 8.9% in the households of the very low group and 94.1% in those of the very high group, according to the results of the National Survey of Multiple Purpose Households (Enhogar-2021).
It also revealed that the Cibao Norte region (58.1%) is the one with the highest percentage of households with access to Internet service, followed by the Ozama Region (52.2%), and then the Cibao Sur (48%).
Also, 92.3% of households in the country have a cell phone; 75.4% of households in the Dominican Republic do not have a laptop or laptop and 74% do not have Ipad or Galaxy tablets.
Particularly in the COVID-19 pandemic the use of the Internet played a fundamental role as it was the means by which a large part of the population accessed information and goods and services, as well as education.
Internet access facilitates and accelerates compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), promotes access to information on employment, health, education, social services or even influences decision-making related to the environment, says Home 2021.
Alegra highlighted that today, MSMEs can have constant communication with their work teams from their cell phones, monitor inventory; access administrative and sales reports; automatically manage the collection process and carry out business accounting in an automated way.
In addition, automatically generate accounting entries, accessing accounting and administrative reports.
