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Working Title: Socially Acceptable Transfer of Technology When Approaching Development Key Words: Development, Appropriate Technology, Dependancy - Water NGO Data transparency - Research done for sustainable by design - Interviews with professionals working on AP stoves in Developed countries - Interviews with professionals working on AP stoves in Developing countries - Existing literature || - What kinds of technology transfer should be allowed for sustainable and environmentally just development? - How does the political, economic, social, or environmental cause that a problem is defined by limit the ways in which it can be effectively solved? - Why do development projects fail and how can they be made more effective? - What is the importance of cultural diversity? - || - How evenly spread is technology transfer in general? - What constrains the effective transfer of more sustainable technologies? - What types of institutions should be responsible for transferring more sustainable technologies? - What types of technology are needed in the least developed parts of the world? - How have the causes for transferring technologies and practices changed over time? - What is the most common and important cause for advocating a change in how things are done? - What is the ratio of development projects that fail to those that succeed? - Is it typical for multiple approaches to be used to solve a problem or simply a one size fits all approach? - Does the development of a less developed country by a more developed country make the less developed country dependent on a more developed country? || - Classes on globalization and development as well as U.S. foreign policy. - Very strong personal views on the subject || - Bias for maintaining strong cultural diversity worldwide. || - Educator. - Researcher on globalization and development ||
 * TOPICAL AREA? || Development and Globalization- the appropriate way to approach development. à What are the different ways of conceptualizing what should be allowed between boarders economically for the sake of development? ||
 * DATA SETS? || - Personal field notes from Ghana
 * SOCIAL THEORETICAL QUESTIONS? || - Why do people seek to make others like them to the point where they share the same goals and use the same methods throughout the whole world?
 * RESEARCH QUESTIONS || - What makes a technology sustainable?
 * WHY NOW? || This problem is only getting harder to solve as the current systems put in place are encouraged. Serious questioning is needed as soon as possible. This is a very controversial field. Despite the amount of literature published in this field the underlying problems remain with out a concrete solution. ||
 * HOW PREPARED? || - Work in Ghana
 * BIAS? || - Bias in favor of developing countries (they aren’t given enough credit).
 * FIELDS OF WORK? || - Development INGO work.
 * FUNDERS || USAID- Development Innovations Venture []

Americorps state and National grant competitions [] ||