These are people who provide guidance in their native environment. For example, in bureaucracy, Jacqueline Tsai acted as a kind of Sherpa for technologists to understand how bureaucracy works. In a sense, the participation officer network is creating a Sherpa network so that senior bureaucrats have people they can trust. The reverse mentorship program is also trying to bring young digital natives into the cabinet, so they can serve as Sherpas to the senior bureaucrats for navigating digital democracy. I use it in the sense of native guidance.