since womens empowerment is usually considered as a way to achieve gender equality the two terms accompany each other in most development literature regarding women notably mdg a great number of existing researches have addressed the issue of gender digital divide however the findings of this study revealed that it is compounded by the significant lack of genderdisaggregated ict statistics at national regional and international level which hiders the national policy makers to adequately capture the patterns of ict access and use by women and to develop relevant policy alternatives