The gender digital divide has been the most popular concept  to analyse the nature of women's exclusions from the benefits of connectivity. The lecture will commence with a demonstration of how this heuristic may be outdated and no longer an appropriate entry point into this debate, using data from a ten country research study conducted by the WWW Foundation in 2015 with urban poor women in the global South. Further, using research done by different scholars in the region, the following questions will be examined in depth - what kinds of connectivity models can overcome gender barriers to meaningful use of the internet? what types of digital literacy models can strengthen women's digital capabilities? what are the features of a gender-responsive governance framework for the Internet? Laws  and development programmes for gender equality in the Asia-Pacific region will be examined with a view to discern what works and what does not, in terms of creating a supportive environment for women's empowering use of the Internet.