Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are believed to hold much potential to empower youth both socially and economically, in low-income and rural communities. In this subject, we focus on rural youth who mediate ICT use as telecenter operators in Uganda and as helpers and enablers for family members in rural hard to reach areas. We explore under what circumstances they may be able to renegotiate existing gendered power structures. We argue that acts of reconciling or confronting the different spaces they inhabit can allow intermediaries to remake their own identities and positions in their community. This process, rather than the potential associated with ICTs, is where spaces for empowerment often lie.