Collection of Untraditionally Developed Academic IT Services in Eastern Europe

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. Keywords—Computing, data networking, e-infrastructure, IT services.