Fernando Miramontes Forattini, Dublin City University

Regina Connolly, Dublin City University

This special issue examines how care ethics and relational approaches can advance responsible design and governance of AI-enabled systems. While contemporary AI ethics discourse has focused on fairness, transparency, and compliance frameworks, this call seeks to address the structural, relational, and institutional dimensions of how digital systems affect vulnerability, participation, and human agency.

The special issue invites empirical research, conceptual contributions, design science research, and interdisciplinary perspectives that move beyond procedural approaches to explore responsibility distribution across socio-technical arrangements. Submissions should examine relationships between technology, power, participation, exclusion, and accountability in digital environments, grounded in diverse epistemological and methodological traditions.

Appel publié par Information Systems Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Care ethics and Information Systems design
• Responsible AI and relational accountability
• Ethics of participation, inclusion, and exclusion in digital systems
• Structural ethics and socio-technical governance
• Human-centred and care-centred AI design
• Vulnerability, dependency, and digital infrastructures
• AI governance and institutional legitimacy
• Ethics of repair, maintenance, and redress in digital systems
• Participatory and inclusive approaches to AI governance
• Responsible innovation and structurally aware design
• Public sector AI and questions of care, trust, and legitimacy
• Algorithmic systems and the distribution of risk and burden
• Gender, inequality, and digital governance
• Ethics of automated decision-making
• Relational approaches to trust, transparency, and accountability
• Organizational responsibility in AI-enabled environments
• Care ethics and sustainability in digital transformation

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Manuscript submission deadline
• November 30, 2026: First review decisions
• February 1, 2027: Revised manuscript submission
• March 15, 2027: Final decisions

Imon Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Saji K Mathew, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Nargis Pervin, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Viswanath Venkatesh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Digital technologies like AI, platforms, and IoT are transforming organizations and society, creating both significant value and serious risks including algorithmic bias, privacy violations, and cybersecurity threats. This special issue seeks research on information systems that are simultaneously responsible—fair, transparent, ethical, and respectful of human rights—and resilient, able to withstand disruptions and recover from failures.

The research community needs theoretically grounded and empirically rigorous studies that move beyond simple technology adoption narratives to examine post-adoption use, value realization, human-machine collaboration, and the long-term impacts of digital systems. Information systems researchers are uniquely positioned to explore how responsibility and resilience interplay across individuals, organizations, institutions, and society.

The special issue welcomes submissions using various research methods that advance understanding of responsible and resilient digital futures in specific technological and organizational contexts. It is linked to the InCIS 2027 conference but is also open to all authors through direct submission.

Appel publié par Information Systems Frontiers. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Responsible AI and AI Governance
• Resilient Information Systems and Digital Platforms
• Human–AI Collaboration and Decision Making
• Digital Transformation and Innovation
• User Behaviour in Digital Environment
• Digital Trust, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
• Data Governance and AI-Enabled Decision Making
• Digital Inclusion, Accessibility, and Societal Impact
• Policy and Governance of Digital Technologies
• Design Science Research for Responsible and Resilient IS
• AI and future of work and education
• Opportunities and challenges does AI create for society
• Skills and mindsets that will remain uniquely human in an AI-driven world

Timeline

• September 15, 2027: Submission deadline