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1.1. What are the different ways of conceptualizing what should be allowed between borders economically and for the sake of development? 1.1.1. Who has the greatest influence over what is transferred and when? 1.1.1.1. What types of technology do you help transfer countries? 1.2. What makes a technology sustainable? 1.2.1. What definitions have been used to determine sustainability and are there stringent enough? 1.2.1.1. How do you define Appropriate Technology and being sustainable? 1.3. How evenly spread is technology transfer in general? 1.3.1. Is everyone being helped who needs it and how is this determined? 1.3.1.1. How have you dealt with who you should focus on helping in your own personal career? 1.4. What constrains the effective transfer of more sustainable technologies? 1.4.1. On what levels of social hierarchy do more sustainable technologies need to be accepted in order for their transfer to be complete and successful? 1.4.1.1. Do you use the technology you are trying to help others with personally? 1.5. What types of institutions should be responsible for transferring more sustainable technologies? 1.5.1. What kind of oversight ensures and determines the effectiveness of these institutions actions? 1.6. What types of sustainable technology are needed in the least developed parts of the world? 1.6.1. Who should be allowed to determine which sustainable technologies are really necessary? 2.1. How have the causes for transferring technologies and practices changed over time? 2.1.1. Who usually benefits from changes in causes for transferring technologies and practices over time? 2.2. What is the most common and important cause for advocating a change in how things are done? 2.2.1. Is this cause usually identified by the people who are living under the condition or those who have already overcome the condition because of its perceived threat? 2.2.1.1. What social or political cause is the most important to address in developing nations? 2.3. What is the importance of cultural diversity? 2.3.1. How is it decided which traditional methods are of continued value and which should be discarded? 2.3.1.1. How much do you immerse yourself in a new location before deciding what would be most beneficial to the locals? 3.1. What is the ratio of development projects that fail to those that succeed? 3.1.1. Under what definition are development projects considered a success? 3.1.1.1. How many successful projects have you been apart of and what made them successful? 3.2. Is it typical for multiple approaches to be used to solve a problem or simply a one-size-fits-all approach? 3.2.1. Are all alternatives considered at each location to determine which is most appropriate given the availability of resources? 3.2.1.1. Are you paid to put fourth a single product to solve a solution, or many? 3.3. Does the development of less developed countries by more developed make the less developed country more dependent on the more developed country? 3.3.1. Are there any cases where this dependency is not created in this sort of technology transfer?
 * 1) What kinds of technology transfer should be allowed for sustainable and environmentally just development?
 * 1) 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?
 * 1) Why do development projects fail and how can they be made more effective?

Interview Letter

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?