Hello Dear and Respected,
I hope you are fine and carrying on the great work you have been doing for the Pakistani side of Internet. I am Ghazala Khan from The Pakistani Spectator (TPS), We at TPS throw a candid look on everything happening in and for Pakistan. We are trying to contribute our humble share in the blogistan.

We at TPS are carrying out a new series of interviews with the notable Pakistani bloggers, writers and web masters. In that regard, We would like to interview you, if you please take some time out of your busy schedule. Please send me your approval for your interview at ghazala.khi at gmail.com, so that I could send you the questions. We would be extremely grateful. We have done many interviews with many bloggers from Pakistan like Dr. Awab, Kashif Aziz, Unaiza Nasim, Omer Alvi and host of others. We have also interviewed prominent figures like renowned writer Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa Agha, Dawn Columnist Urdsher Cowasjee and plethora of others.

regards.

Ghazala Khan
The Pakistani Spectator
http://www.pakspectator.com

I’ve done some studies of consumer research as well as supply chain management, thought I’m no no specialist in either of those disciplines.

I don’t know, is there any global projects like this, but in Finlad we have a social entrepreneurship project of a friend of mine. The Kuinoma (Finnis for “likeyourown”) service, founded by Markku Jussila is an interesting try to find new ways to consume by sharing and renting stuff. The basic idea of the concept is simple: people buy too much stuff, that they do not need often. So why not rent your equipment with reasonable price, when you don’t need it?

For instance I have plenty of skiing equipment designed for off-piste skiing. I live in southern Finlad where we don’t have mountains for off piste/backcountry skiing. I have my studies, job and social life in Helsinki and I can ski off piste maybe two weeks in year, because the nearest mountains are in northwest Finland, about 1000 km from my home. What I did was just, that I put my off-piste/backcountry gear to Kuinoma service and people facing the same situation can rent my gear for cheap price and reduce their material consumption. Of course Kuinoma is not only about ski gear, but as well as books, tools, musical equipment…

I just hope there is services like Kuinoma somewhere else than in Finland also.

Kuinoma homepage (only in Finnish, sorry..but you can contact the people of Kuinoma emailing kuinoma@kuinoma.fi)

Some very few articles about the service in English:

http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4514:buy-buy-buy-or-maybe-just-borrow&catid=20:lifestyle-and-entertainment&Itemid=164

http://www.kesko.com/index.asp?id=0061248BB1F44933A848CD191ED376B6&data=1,URL,http://www.kesko.com/modules/release/show_release.asp?id=0714C244326B4AE1A010D58084B17523

-Matti

Maybe we can work together in the future.
I’ll keep reading you.

Cheers and congratulations!