Edith Hesse
| Organization | CIAT |
|---|---|
| Organization type | International Organization |
| Country | Colombia |
Dr. Edith Hesse joined CIAT in 2001 as head of the Center's Scientific Information Management Unit and Library. Over the years she has assumed additional responsibilities in the areas of scientific training, visitors/conference services, and communications, which now form the Corporate Communications and Capacity Strengthening Unit (CCC).
With a Ph.D. in Socio-economics from the University of Social and Economic Sciences, Vienna, Austria, she joined the Economics Program of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico in 1979 and became the leader of a scientific information management project funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, in 1984. Throughout her professional career she has successfully implemented various innovative approaches to scientific information management and knowledge sharing not only at CIAT and CIMMYT, but also at the CGIAR level. She has also served as consultant, commissioned by the World Bank, the Kellogg Foundation, and other entities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
This member participated in the following Forums
Forum Forum: "Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing" April, 2011
Question 1: What are we sharing and what needs to be shared?
Submitted by Edith Hesse on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 15:16
In my experience of working with lots of diverse socio-economic and bio-physical data at CIMMYT and CIAT, I did not notice resistance by researchers to share their data, however, they expressed concerns that some data might be incorrectly interpreted. For instance, when seeing the first results of data analysis, several decisions might need to be taken, e.g. whether to exclude or include outlayers, whether to consult original field data to correct obvious errors, etc. Outsider, not being familiar with the context, might not be able to take correct decisions, and therefor come to different results.