Sentence examples for acap- from inspiring English sources

The excellent Annapurna Conservation Area Project (Acap) asks tourists to dress and behave modestly.

"This lawsuit has come around because of the unilateral decision by Google - and others - on how content will be used". The answer, say content providers, could be a system called automated content access protocol - or Acap.

Acap has some big battalions behind it: the World Association of Newspapers, 18,000 publications-strong; and many major European and publishing players.

Let's try an automated content access protocol instead: Acap, coming to a news outlet near you next month for a crucial pilot period.

Developed and funded by the European Publishers Council, the International Publishers Association and the World Association of Newspapers, Acap will be a "permissions information" technology that can be attached to content on a media organisation's website.

"Google is likely to agree on Acap specifications, it wants to keep publishers happy, but it is likely to draw the line at paying". Mr Robertson said that wealthy Google is readily seen as a target - evidenced by companies such as Viacom threatening legal action over copyrighted video clips to improve its negotiating position with Google-owned YouTube.

Mr Kilman said that the idea is that, just as a news agency such as Reuters has a commercial relationship with those that want to use its content, so Acap might be an option for any content provider who wants to charge for use via Google.

However, the continued defiant stance adopted by Google is a probable indicator that it will ultimately balk at any development of Acap that proposes payment.

Acap will tell the web crawlers - used by Google to aggregate content - what they can do with each piece of information, such as how long the piece can stay on Google News, image rights, and how long an article can be.

These days the true pioneers in the field investors and fund managers such as CDC, Actis and Acap Partners are putting money into countries from Afghanistan to Tanzania.

Thereafter he served as a business and legal consultant at ACAP Partners, advising the Southern Africa Economic Development Fund and USAID.