Special issue on responsible IS research for a better world.

In the third exemplar article of this special issue, Mettler et al. ([13]) observe that making the world better through ICT also implies that marginalised groups of society can benefit from and get access to digital services. Finally, they meet the fifth criterion by describing such an example of IT design principles in the context of resource constrained organisations that are introducing new information technologies as responsible IS research practices. In the fifth exemplar of responsible IS research, Ramadani et al. ([16]) dwell on the long-standing question of whether centralised or decentralised strategies are more suitable when attempting to address a developing nation's societal or economic challenges through ICT. (5) The discussion includes IT design principles and implications for the subdiscipline of responsible IS. [Extracted from the article]