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Emergent serendipity fosters volunteerism driven by creative problem solving, not simply following directions.

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                      Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 4
                      April 2011
                      139 pages
                      ISSN:0001-0782
                      EISSN:1557-7317
                      DOI:10.1145/1924421
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