The Rural Internet Kiosk is the "brainchild" of Intersat Africa, an African internet service provider. Jawahar Patani is the creator of the RIK. To ensure implementation success, Intersat Africa has partnered with Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development to provide the programming and manage the project implementations. This implementation is being run by the local community based organization, Voices of Diani, a group completely comprised of local youth. Negotiations are underway with the Youth Enterprise Development Fund for a wider scale implementation as they seek to empower the youth by making the access to finance available for these small businesses.