the findings of this research reveal that online public service for women should go beyond merely providing an access to the existing national egovernment services and design and implement targeted online services for women based on adequate assessment of needs findings of this research confirm that the gender objectives should include gender mainstreaming within the national egovernment framework with an aim to bring about a more genderfriendly public administration approach in addition it is important to consider the potential of women s online participation to transform the offline reality using the egovemment as an important vehicle the crucial elements of the application of ict for gender equality in governance in this regard is to reinvent the public sector by transforming its internal and external way of handling activities as well as its interrelationships with women and other actors in the society