This paper aims to provide the kind of disaggregated data required to identify areas of inequity in access to ICTs between men and women and any differences in their usage at the national level and comparatively across countries. This should provide a basis for policy makers to develop interventions aimed at ensuring greater gender equity in relation to access and usage of ICTs. The analysis of the data also reveals other, perhaps overriding, inequities that point to the fact that poor women may have more in common with poor men in their own and other countries than with less marginalised women in their own and other countries. The paper is based on the Research ICT Africa (RIA) Household and Individual Access and Usage survey conducted in 17 African countries during 2007 and 2008, and on focus group studies that were conducted across five African countries to gain a greater qualitative understanding of access to and usage of ICTs from a gender perspective.