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Hello, The list of questions included below are will inform the conclusions I hope to make in my thesis. The overall goal of this thesis is to establish guidelines for how technology should be transferred to developing countries to allow for sustainable and environmentally just development in the less developed countries of the world. This will be accomplished interviewing a number of individuals who are prominent in the field and supported by my own experiences in researching sustainable stove technologies.

What professional background led to your work in field of globalization and development?

Where has most of your work on development taken place? What led you to do so much of your work in that location?

What types of technologies have you advocated to solve problems with development? Do you use these technologies yourself in your day-to-day life?

Have you done anything in the projects you worked on to preserve the local culture?

What types of institutions do you believe should govern the development of countries obtaining aid from more developed ones?

Do locals contact you (or your organization) to ask for help in solving a problem, or do you reach a location and try to convince locals that their lives would be better with the adoption of a new system? Do you advocate for a single solution or many possible ones?

How deeply do you immerse yourself (or believe people should immerse themselves) in a local culture before providing locals with a solution to whatever you are advocating to solve?

Under what definition do you consider a development project a success?

Do you feel that any level of dependency is created when some form of institution seeks to help an impoverished local community?

What other people do you feel are most prominent in the field of globalization and development?