This article traces the efforts of a government-supported project that have been made to establish a sustainable EC model at a remote area (Lalashan) in Taiwan. A comprehensive approach called DoWeb (Digital Opportunity Within E-business) model was applied to cross through the Digital Divide and also make it sustainable. After two and a half years of hard working, the achievements of Lalashan DoWeb project had been far beyond everybody's expectations. In this paper, we illustrate the DoWeb model, which has been employed first in Lalashan and now in other remote areas of Taiwan. In these cases, technical inspiration and innovation are closely married to eco-social ones in order to gradually combine and balance between profit making and public welfare.