Created at the end of 2000, RIKS (State Infocommunication Foundation) is a non-commercial foundation administered by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.

RIKS provides communication-related services for public institutions and other state-budgeted institutions and operative communication for particular purposes.

RIKS provides critical communications, maritime communications, and telephone services.

The mission of RIKS is to provide public institutions, local municipalities and other state-budgeted institutions with cohesive, high-quality, secure and cost-effective communication-related services, including communications for particular purposes through its own infrastructures and infocommunication services delivered from the free market.