TY - JFULL AU - Rihards Balodis and Inara Opmane PY - 2013/3/ TI - Collection of Untraditionally Developed Academic IT Services in Eastern Europe T2 - International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences SP - 349 EP - 354 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/458 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 74, 2013 N2 - Deep and radical social reforms of the last century-s nineties in many Eastern European countries caused changes in Information Technology-s (IT) field. Inefficient information technologies were rapidly replaced with forefront IT solutions, e.g., in Eastern European countries there is a high level penetration of qualitative high-speed Internet. The authors have taken part in the introduction of those changes in Latvia-s leading IT research institute. Grounding on their experience authors in this paper offer an IT services based model for analysis the mentioned changes- and development processes in the higher education and research fields, i.e., for research e-infrastructure-s development. Compare to the international practice such services were developed in Eastern Europe in an untraditional way, which provided swift and positive technological changes. ER -