Costa Rica is not Computer Savvy

And this one reason it is economically backward.

I can see this easily in their banking system. When you walk into a bank in a rural area, you are walking into an intellectual vacuum.

It doesn't feel that way to Ticos. Small advances feel like big advances to them. There are no national standards for anything. They do things the way their neighbors do them. Fifty miles away you are in a different neighborhood (barrio) and they do things a different way.