In an interview with StateScoop last week, New Hampshire Chief Information Officer Denis Goulet said the state’s multiyear effort to retool its online citizens services, which include website redesigns and new accessibility features, started with evangelizing state agencies that were initially reluctant to participate.
“I was going to every agency and talking to them about how you flip around the perspective” Goulet said. “I told them straight up their opinion on whether their website is good or not doesn’t matter. It’s their constituents opinion that matters.”
Goulet said the New Hampshire Department of Technology has moved about 70% of the executive branch agency websites to a cloud platform and that they now share a common design. He said the standardized online appearance of the state government has garnered good feedback.
Goulet said the new website platform has expanded traffic-monitoring capabilities, which were put to the test during the COVID-19 pandemic when many state websites saw high traffic. He said that stress test eliminated worry of future crashes.
Goulet said the platform was also built to be “accessible by default,” but that adding new documents or applications to the platform and making them accessible requires additional work, so his office is training agency leaders how to do that. He said the Department of Justice’s release last month of final accessibility rules regarding state and local web and application content has been helpful.
“I’m getting [state agencies] calling me saying, ‘Alright, what are we going to do?’ That’s perfect. So I think we’re really going to up our game in New Hampshire based on just using that as a lever to help us make it important,” Goulet said.
Goulet said he hopes that within six months the state will have a new business services portal running. He called it a “transformational event” for New Hampshire.
“I really do think that for anybody that’s working on citizen experience or user experience, flip the perspective, go to the people who you’re serving to determine if you’re doing it right,” he said.
Walpole Police and New Hampshire State Police are investigating a shooting incident at Jiffy Mart in Walpole, N.H. on Route 12. Police report no danger to the community. One person was transported for injuries to Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H.
No other information is available at this time.
CONCORD, NH — The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night is expected to be the sixth largest in history, according to the New Hampshire Lottery.
The jackpot is expected to be $1.25 billion. The one-time cash payout should be around $572 million before taxes. No one has won the jackpot since Sept. 6, when winners who purchased tickets in Missouri and Texas split a $1.78 billion jackpot.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 292.2 million to 1. The odds of winning the $1 million prize — matching five numbers without the Powerball are 1 in 11.7 million.
Charlie McIntyre, the executive director of the New Hampshire Lottery, said last week, $2.4 million worth of tickets were sold in the state.
“We’ve gone a number of drawings without a winner, giving this Powerball jackpot plenty of time to rise to the sixth largest of all time,” said “There’s still time to make your holiday season brighter with a chance at this $1.25 billion prize — all you need is $2 to play.”
Revenue from the sales, he said, helps the commission “continue our daily mission to deliver the maximum amount of revenue to public schools in New Hampshire.”
Since 1964, more than $3 billion has been contributed to schools in the Granite State.
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