I think a large part of this is what I call "digital literacy" (a "horseless carriage" of a phrase, but so what for now, so early in the digital revolution)

I'm thinking of it in a strictly clerical sense. The kind of customers ScraperWiki has are usually doing or wanting to do new forms of publishing or business analysis.

The key problem typically is that the entire organisation, and its upstream suppliers and downstream customers, only has a smattering of digitally literate people. The quality of data and of business process automation is therefore very low - computers are mere transporters of "digital paper".

I say "digital literacy" with this kind of optimistic hope, that it will become the default - like we are shocked if people can't read or write today. I think we probably need to codify it and teach it in a similar way.

You're extending it out behind information processing, until physical connections to the real world. Not surprisingly, Mr. IoT! So I think the term works well.

When I started this comment I thought your concept would turn out to be a bit different from my "digital literacy". But now I think about it, I can't see a difference.